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Perfect Eloquence

Listed as a Sports Illustrated Best Sports Book of 2024

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Homing

On the longlist for the 2025 WCoNA Book of the Year Award

Reviews

The Grapes of Conquest

Review in California History:

“if you have been looking for a labor and political history of winemaking in California, the meticulously researched Grapes of Conquest is a must-read.”

Judaism and Its Bible

Review in Catholic Biblical Quarterly:

“In sum, G.’s erudite scholarship is exhibited in his goal ‘to appreciate the richness of Judaism’s treatment of its Bible, the book from which Jews cannot escape‘ (emphasis added; p. xvii), and academics and general readers are the targeted audience.”

Baseball

Review in The Journal of Popular Culture:

“A joy to read, and a wonder of historical writing with its connections to broader cultural trends, this work should become the standard reading for the history of baseball during the middle of the twentieth century.”

A New Deal for Quilts

Review in The Journal of Southern History:

“From quilt aficionados to textile historians and researchers of American history, this scholarly yet accessible book is a welcome addition to the study of American crafts and government-sponsored arts programs in the 1930s.”

The First Migrants

Review in Great Plains Quarterly:

“The First Migrants focuses on this ‘slower and less visible development occurring in the countryside’ while covering communities and colonies of Black homesteaders throughout the Great Plains during the main period of migration from 1877 to 1920. . . . The result is an engaging history supported with details drawn from newspapers, anecdotes, photographs, and family memorabilia.”

Cattle Country

Review in American Literary History:

“Within this important body of work, Cattle Country makes two key contributions: first, through its direct focus on the crucial relationship between food and the environment; and second, through its method of creatively illuminating the central significance of largely ignored minor characters.”