Reviews by
Jim Melcher
Jim Melcher is Associate
Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine at Farmington
in Farmington, Maine, where he has taught since 1999. A native of
Madison, Wisconsin, he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and
the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in 1995. He
has won six teaching awards, including two at UMF. His book reviews
appear in several scholarly journals, and include reviews of The
Anarchist: A Novel, American Elites and The Strange Deaths of President
Harding. He has also published his own writing in such journals
as PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Economics and
Politics, American Review of Politics and The Southern Maine Review. He
has been listed in Who’s Who in America and is an active member of the
Bookcrossing community. He and his wife, Nancy Finnegan, live in
Augusta, Maine.