Susan R. Horton is Emerita Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Her five previous books, all published by university and major commercial presses, were reviewed widely and with praise. One was mentioned in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Another was described in "Choice" as "an open and adroit deployment of theory and historiography"; another, reviewed in "Style," was described as "important and highly intelligent"; another was described as "adroit, deft, ambitious, and wide-ranging." From Green Fields to Blue Collars, is similarly "adroit, deft, ambitious, and wide-r...