C&RL News October 2010 502 America Brushes Up: The Use and Market- ing of Toothpaste and Toothbrushes in the Twentieth Century, by Kerry Segrave (230 pages, January 2010), reviews the history of dental advertising, from early hog’s-bristle brushes and Dr. Lyon’s Tooth Powder to Oral-B power toothbrushes, tartar control, and teeth whiteners. Segrave concludes that marketers turned Americans in the 20th cen- tury into a nation of commercially prepared dentifrice users through mostly false and ex- aggerated claims (with the notable exception of the addition of fluoride in 1955, leading to the American Dental Association’s [ADA] endorsement of Crest in 1960) that have been criticized by the Federal Trade Commission, the ADA, and consumer groups. $35.00. Mc- Farland. 978-0-7864-4754-1. A good companion to this is the Oxford Dictionary of Dentistry, by Robert Ireland (410 pages, May 2010), a compendium of definitions encompassing anatomy and physi- ology of the teeth, pathology, oral surgery, orthodontics, dentist’s tools, and therapeutics. Many useful diagrams and tables are scattered throughout, and appendices containing lists of foramina, arteries, nerves, veins, sinuses, and muscles of the head and neck will add value to your next visit to the dentist. A companion Web site offers expanded entries and color illustrations. $24.99. Oxford University. 978- 0-19-953301-5. The California Snatch Racket, by James R. Smith and W. Lane Rogers (393 pages, July 2010), retells 15 true-crime stories of ransom kidnappings in California during the 1920s and 1930s. Some are relatively well-known, such as the 1933 abduction in San Jose of Brooke Hart and the lynching of his alleged murderers, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson’s alleged kidnapping in 1926. The others are more obscure yet evocative of the George M. Eberhart is senior editor of American Libraries, e-mail: geberhart@ala.org N e w P u b l i c a t i o n sGeorge M. Eberhart era, making this a colorful selection for crimi- nal justice collections. $16.95. Craven Street Books. 978-1-884995-63-7. The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue, edited by Catherine M. Parisian (398 pages, March 2010), is a com- prehensive description of the 193 books (plus one map and one terrestrial globe) pur- chased with federal funds for the first li- brary in the White House in 1850–1853. President Mil- lard Fillmore and First Lady Abigail Fill- more were both book lovers and set up the library as part of their transformation of the second- floor oval drawing room into a study and family entertainment space. Charles Lanman, at that time librarian of the War Department, aided the Fillmores in selecting and procur- ing specific titles. Parisian was able to identify the specific editions of the books, long since dispersed, that constituted the first library by examining Treasury Department vouchers and two catalogues of the Executive Man- sion library from the Rutherford Hayes and Theodore Roosevelt administrations. Her cat- alogue of the library provides both a descrip- tion of the contents and illustrations, as well as context on why each book was appro- priate for the presidential residence. $55.00. Penn State University. 978-0-271-03713-4. Jazz Books in the 1990s, by Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg (211 pages, April 2010), lists more than 700 English-language nonfic- tion books published from 1990 to 1999. Is- sued as part of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz oct10b.indd 502 10/11/2010 8:59:11 AM October 2010 503 C&RL News Studies series of specialized monographs, the book’s entries are categorized into bi- ographies, history, instruments, essays and criticism, musicology, regional studies, dis- cographies, record guides, pictorial works, reference materials, and conference proceed- ings. $45.00. Scarecrow. 978-0-8108-6985-1. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs, ed- ited by Michael J. Ryan, Brenda J. Chinnery- Allgeier, and David A. Eberth (624 pages, June 2010), should spark some interest in the giant ceratopsian herbivores of the Cre- taceous, especially in the light of Montana State University’s announcement in July that Triceratops and Torosaurus are actually the same dinosaur at different stages of growth. Although that point isn’t addressed in these papers from a 2007 symposium at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, almost every other aspect is, from taxono- my and discoveries to biology and behav- ior, making this one of the most important horned dinosaur monographs since Richard S. Lull’s 1933 overview. Nonspecialists will enjoy Peter Dodson’s memoir “Forty Years of Ceratophilia” and science historians will appreciate Darren H. Tanke’s rediscovery of William E. Cutler’s Eoceratops skeleton, exca- vated in 1920 in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park, among the specimens at the Natural History Museum in London. An accompany- ing CD-ROM includes a history of ceratopsian discoveries in Canada and a list of specimens recovered. $110.00. Indiana University. 978- 0-253-35358-0. The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, edited by Ilan Stavans, et al. (2,666 pages, September 2010), includes extracts from the works of 201 Latino writers, defined as any author of Hispanic ancestry who has either lived most of the time in the United States or who has helped define the U.S. Latino com- munity through a body of work. The range of materials selected for this anthology is truly stunning. Divided into six historical sections from “Colonization” (1537–1810) to “Into the mainstream” (1980 to the present), the editors manage to find space for writings by such diverse l u m i n a r i e s as the Span- ish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Garcilaso de la Vega; the soldier-poet Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá; Cuban patriot José Martí; po- ets William Carlos Williams, Miguel Algarín, and Martin Espada; novelists Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Isabel Allende, Reinaldo Arenas, and Luis Alberto Urrea; essayist/ac- tivist César Chávez; playwrights René Mar- qués, María Irene Fornés, Luis Valdez, Nilo Cruz, and José Rivera; and selections from cartoons, popular sayings, legends and sto- ries, and popular song from salsa to hip-hop. $59.95. W. W. Norton. 978-0-393-08007-0. Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays, edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie (293 pages, Decem- ber 2009), offers insights into the often over- looked correspondence of Amherst’s reclu- sive poet. Dickinson’s letters contain riddles, images, and concepts similar to those in her poems, making them a rich source of in- formation on her poetic themes and styles. These essays examine the letters as examples of 19th-century gift culture, domestic meta- phor, condolence messages, shared views on books and literature, commentary on wom- en’s roles, veiled eroticism, and nuanced use of emphasis and alliteration. $39.95. Univer- sity of Massachusetts. 978-1-55849-741-2. oct10b.indd 503 10/11/2010 8:59:12 AM