...Theodore Ropp U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition (The Library of American Biography, edited by Oscar Handlin) . By Catton Bruce . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. x , 201 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 574 The South...

...Jay Luvaas From Cedar Mountain to Antietam: August-September, 1862. Cedar Mountain—Second Manassas—Chantilly—Harpers Ferry—South Mountain—Antietam . By Stackpole Edward J. . Harrisburg : The Stackpole Company , 1959 . Pp. 466 . $5.95 . Grant Moves South . By Catton Bruce...

... and the American Military Tradition {The Library of American Biography, edited by Oscar Handlin). By Bruce Catton. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Pp. x, 201. $3.00. This volume is the first of a new series of short biographies, written by recognized authorities, and intended to provide critical insight...

... in Wall Street. His last great battle was his race with death to complete the Memoirs which would give his family financial security. I have only three reservations about this fine book. First, Mr. Catton never has time to justify its somewhat pretentious title, U. S. Grant and the American Military...

.... By Kenneth P. Williams. New York: The Mac­ millan Company, 1956. Pp. xii, 616. $7.50$ This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War. By Bruce Catton. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. Pp. 437. $5,955 They Met at Get­ tysburg. By Edward J. Stackpole. Harrisburg...

... of a Civil War Non-Buff 41 may be for this reason that he tries all the harder to be a dedicated Civil War buff. Friends have looked at me in disbelief when I say that Christo­ pher Ward is as interesting to me as Bruce Catton, certainly not less interesting, and in a way a whole lot more. If anything...

... Catton calls it by all odds the best book on Jackson since Colonel Henderson s classic biography was printed [in 1898 and T. Harry Williams thinks that, It is the definitive life of Jackson. I would agree with Catton, but not with Williams. This is a good book, but it is not quite up to the standard...

... Mighty Stonewall. By Frank E. Vandiver. New York: McGrawHill Book Company, 1957. Pp. viii, 547. $6.50. This biography has been highly praised by a number of ranking Civil War specialists. Bruce Catton calls it by all odds the best book on Jackson since Colonel Henderson s classic biography was printed...

... by copyright. Rather than Mr. Wheeler s book, a reader should consult Commager and Morris s Spirit of 76 or Scheer and Rankin s Rebels and Redcoats. As Bruce Catton wrote in the Foreword, Incidents like these [recounted in the book] have no real importance. . . . MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY W. ROBERT HIGGINS ...

... some of the difficulties of the bi­ ographical approach to history, as one of its predecessors in this new Library of American Biography, Bruce Catton s U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, illustrates its advantages. Both books are well written. The difference lies primarily...

... should consult Commager and Morris s Spirit of 76 or Scheer and Rankin s Rebels and Redcoats. As Bruce Catton wrote in the Foreword, Incidents like these [recounted in the book] have no real importance. . . . MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY W. ROBERT HIGGINS ...

... some of the difficulties of the bi­ ographical approach to history, as one of its predecessors in this new Library of American Biography, Bruce Catton s U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition, illustrates its advantages. Both books are well written. The difference lies primarily...

... odds the finest book that Catton has written. His colors are more subdued, his brush strokes more subtle, and the portrait he paints does justice to both the subject and the biographer. ALLEGHENY COLLEGE JAY LUVAAS Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. By Stanley M. Elkins...

... and by the imprimatur of Mr. Bruce Catton. The author, Professor of History and English at the United States Naval Academy, is a skilled practitioner in two fields. His Gideon Welles remains one of the best single works on the Civil War. Mr. Lincoln's Navy is somewhat broader than James M. Merrill s recent Rebel Shore...

.... By Richard S. West, Jr. New York: Long­ mans, Green and Company, 1957. Pp. xiii, 328. $6.50. The nature of this book is indicated by its derivative title and by the imprimatur of Mr. Bruce Catton. The author, Professor of History and English at the United States Naval Academy, is a skilled practitioner...

...-September, 1862. Cedar Mountain Second Manassas Chantilly Harpers Ferry South Mountain Antietam. By Edward J. Stackpole. Harrisburg: The Stackpole Company, 1959. Pp. 466. $5.95. Grant Moves South. By Bruce Catton. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. Pp. x, 564. $6.50. In many respects 1862...

... in recent years have emphasized the conflict in the American past. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the brilliant writing by Allan Nevins and Bruce Catton on the Civil War or Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. s colorful accounts of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Never­ theless, the themes of consensus...

...&W singles on Billboards charts (at forty-six weeks), and a list of other classics including Jambalaya, Hey, Good 12. For examples, see William Leuchtenburg, A Troubled Feast, pp. 69-83; Conkin and Burner, A History of Recent America, pp. 620-29; Link and Catton, American Epoch, pp. 631-64. 13...