[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Timothy Messer-Kruse, who is a Professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.  He is responding to Andrew Hartman’s recent post on his book The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1998) — Ben Alpers] Imagine my surprise this last week upon finding a review of a book I wrote five monographs and eighteen years ago!  I’ve often told my graduate students that the mill of academic publishing grinds at a glacial pace, but this Read more