Daniel H. Borus is assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester. His scholarly work has concentrated on the cultural history of the United States between 1877 and 1930. He is author of Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market (1989) and editor of These United States: Portraits of America from the 1920's (1992). He is currently at work on a general study of the relationship between culture and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.