Cecelia Bucki, Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915–36. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 300 pp. $35.00 cloth; Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 271 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.