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Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. By Deborah Fitzgerald. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 242 pp. Index, notes, appendix, photographs. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-300-08813-2

degree. The book's heavy dependence on local newspaper articles underscores the important role of a pro-industry local culture so central to its argument, as do photos of atomic beauty pageants, uranium cafes, and pro-industry billboards. Confronted with a lack of adequate census data, the author uses school enrollment records to measure demographic changes in the local population. Accounts of individual entrepreneurs, such as Moab's Charlie Steen, add drama and entertainment to the story. Yellowcake Towns will appeal to the business historian and to historians of the cold war and the American West. Its complex analysis is subtle enough to interest the graduate student, and the writing is, generally, clear and engaging enough to appeal to undergraduates. Occasionally, the firm line drawn between "outside" and "inside" economic forces appears to break down in the face of complicated economic relations, prompting questions about the usefulness of such neat oppositions. Similarly, the author frequently relies on the concepts of "colonialism," "paternalism," and "isolationism" to situate his study in the larger context of the history of the American West, yet he does not explain the historiographic significance of the terms. Had he done so, I believe, he would not only have uncovered some of his underlying assumptions, but he also would have made the book accessible to a much broader audience and heightened the nonspecialist's appreciation of its argument. But these are minor criticisms when weighed against the book's unique and perceptive analysis.