The No Man's Land of American History
The Era of Good Feelings By George Dangerfield (Harcourt, Brace; $6). READ MORE >>
The Fevered March
Horace Greeley: Voice of the People By William Harlan Hale (Harper; $4). READ MORE >>
Democracy in the Making
The Age of Jackson By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 577 pages. $5.) READ MORE >>
Wilson, the Intransigent
Woodrow Wilson and the People By H. C. F. Bell (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 392 pages. $3.) Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal By Thomas A. Bailey (New York: The Macmillan Company. 429 pages, $3.50.) READ MORE >>
Lincoln's Foreign Policy
Diplomat in Carpet Slippers By Jay Monaghan (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 505 pages. $4.) Like most of our great Presidents, Lincoln was a moral hero not only to his own people, but to struggling radicals everywhere. In a fine work of narrative history, which combines in rare fashion humor, imagination and scholarly research, Jay Monaghan reminds us of Lincoln's importance as a world figure. READ MORE >>
Lincoln Had Them, Too
The Hidden Civil War by Wood Gray New York: The Viking Press. 314 pages. $3.75. Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column by George Fort Milton New York: The Vanguard Press. 368 pages. $3.50. In April 1941, when President Roosevelt called Charles Lindbergh a Copperhead, the newspapers were careful to explain who the Copperheads were. Now for the first time these Civil War fifth-columnists have been made the subject of full-length historical studies for the general reader. READ MORE >>