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...Harry R. Stevens Magnificent Missourian: The Life of Thomas Hart Benton . By Smith Elbert B. . Philadelphia and New York : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1958 . Pp. 351 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 526 The South Atlantic Quarterly time, and that modern...

...Harry R. Stevens Old Bullion Benton: Senator from the New West . By Chambers William Nisbet . Boston : Atlantic-Little, Brown and Company , 1956 . Pp. xv , 517 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 390 The South Atlantic Quarterly Despite these and many...

...Vivien Green Fryd Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Vivien Green Fryd The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices : Thomas Hart Benton s Sources of Country Music In December 1934, Time magazine applauded Thomas Hart Benton as a Regionalist painter whose dynamic narrative, figurative paint­...

...Kylie Benton-Connell; D. T. Cochrane Indigenous-led movements have shifted oil transport infrastructure from the margins to the center of political contestation throughout North America. These campaigns include confrontation with pipeline financiers. We argue that there are both strategic...

...David Benton Wharton Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Volume XXIV JULY Number 3 The South Atlantic Quarterly Pacifism and the Pacifist David Benton Wharton Smithfield, N. C. I The pacifist holds to two powerful conceptions upon which are based his attitude toward the whole...

...Nanette Dembitz Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 WAS SENATOR MCCARTHY S GOOD NAME DAMAGED? Nanette Dembitz SENATOR MCCARTHY S libel suits against former Senator Benton and the Syracuse, New York, Post-Standard, which ap­ parently he will pursue even though his election campaign...

.... VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY RANDALL STEWART Magnificent Missourian: The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. By Elbert B. Smith. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Com­ pany, 1958. Pp. 351. $6.00. After more than half a century of neglect Senator Benton is honored with a second outstanding biography in two years...

..., which is also the American tragedy. One could wish that Mr. Floan might bring the subject up to date in another volume characterized by the same authoritativeness and astringency. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY RANDALL STEWART Magnificent Missourian: The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. By Elbert B. Smith...

... of movement and tumult. Much remains to be said, much perhaps to be understood of Benton s place in political history. In the Dictionary of American Biography Benton is firmly fixed as a consistent moderate. Chambers, agreeing with a newer interpretation of the Democratic party, places him closest...

... if not inevitable. JAMES W. SILVER Old Bullion Benton: Senator from the New West. By William Nisbet Chambers. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Pp. xv, 517. $6.00. Tom Sawyer supposed Senator Benton was the greatest man in the world, and so, probably, did a good many of his contemporaries. Thomas...

... and their children at work, and looked at the products of their toil. I went first to southwestern Michigan. A representative of the Jewish Agricultural Society which for a half century has been fos­ tering the return of American Jews to the land took me in his car from Chicago to Benton Harbor. As we entered...

... among other distinguished men John C. Calhoun, Thomas H. Benton, General Winfield Scott, and the members of Congress from Virginia. Testimony was taken in Washington, New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, in Tennessee, North Carolina, and in nearly every city of Virginia, laying bare...

... the Jackson fight on the bank opened the two North Carolina senators took opposite grounds. But in 1834, when Benton s expunging resolution was made an issue in politics, they became violent opponents. North Carolina took Benton s view and instructed her senators to vote for expunging. Man­ gum refused...

... the Jackson fight on the bank opened the two North Carolina senators took opposite grounds. But in 1834, when Benton s expunging resolution was made an issue in politics, they became violent opponents. North Carolina took Benton s view and instructed her senators to vote for expunging. Man­ gum refused...

.... A more complete surrender of the protective principle can scarcely be imagined. The plan was communicated to Webster, and, at another time, to Appleton and Davis, and to other protectionists, but all ex­ pressed their decided opposition to any such measure. Benton, apparently on the authority of Letcher...

... of Thomas Hart Benton, United States Senator from Missouri. Benton and Jackson were living in Nashville when a quarrel broke out between them with the result that a fight occurred in which Jackson was shot in the shoulder by the younger brother of Benton; then Benton left Tennessee and went to Missouri...

... threw out strong intimations that you would veto the bill if it were not postponed. That letter I did and do most unequivocally condemn, but it did not affect the constitutionality of the bill, or justify 13 L. G. Tyler, The Letters and Times of the Tylers, II, 115. Thomas H. Benton, Thirty Years...

..., and corporate power. Kylie Benton-Connell is a doctoral candidate at the New School for Social Research and a contributing editor at the New Inquiry. She has worked in research and organizing roles in Australia, Bolivia, and the US. Deborah Cowen is a geographer at the University of Toronto, a settler...

... of contents. The conclusions of the study, as summed up at the close, are mildly optimistic, and the manner of arriving at them witnesses to a just sense of the use of reports. Mr. Ernest Jay Benton opens the twenty-first series of The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science...

..., Owen, The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering 467 Fryd, Vivien Green, The Sad Twang of Mountain Voices : Thomas Hart Benton s Sources of Country Music 301 Goddu, Teresa, Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music 57 Golan, Daphna, Between...