Books
“They meant to replace the logic of citizenship with the logic of the market.”
— America’s Army: Marking the All-Volunteer Force, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
“To claim the sexual revolution for the heartland as well as for the radical fringes matters because our notions about what the sexual revolution was—the stories we tell, the histories we make—are tools in our continuing negotiations over the shape of our society.”
— Sex in the Heartland
Sex in the Heartland
Harvard University Press, 1999, paperback, 2002
“There on a mountaintop in Hawaii, in a moment of stillness in a world at war, a woman who had never seen snow sang, “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.” It was her gift, and she knew it was not enough.”
— The First Strange Place
The First Strange Place
The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii
Co-author David Farber, The Free Press, 1992; paperback, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
“Certainly we should seek our usable past, but to find answers to the current problems of American courtship we need to go not backward but forward.”
— From Front Porch to Back Seat
From Front Porch to Back Seat:
Courtship in 20th Century America
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988; paperback 1989