...Robert F. Durden Stephen A. Douglas . By Johannsen Robert W. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1973 . Pp. xii , 993 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 140 The South Atlantic Quarterly L. Q. C. Lamar, Pragmatic Patriot. By James B. Murphy. Baton...

...Robert W. Johannsen Book Reviews 239 Republicans themselves their continuing devotion to a concept of federal union at odds with the one that they were being forced to construct, a federal union that trusted the states to do their duty and one that accepted funda­ mental limitations on its own...

...Robert W. Johannsen Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality . By Anderson Dwight G. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 . Pp. ix , 271 . $16.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 348 The South Atlantic Quarterly Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality...

...Robert W. Johannsen Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy. By Niven John . New York : Oxford University Press , 1973 . Pp. xii , 676 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Review s 275 The book summarizes the revisionist interpretation...

...Robert W. Johannsen After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism . By Escott Paul D. . Baton Rouge and London : Louisiana State University Press , 1978 . Pp. xiv , 295 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 528 The South...

... repre­ sentative in the true sense of the word, looking to the lasting prosperity and future interests of the whole country. Both the South and the nation need more public men. DUKE UNIVERSITY THOMAS H. NAYLOR Stephen A. Douglas. By Robert W. Johannsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xii...

..., in The Republican Decision at Chicago, summarizes the history of the Republicans through their convention of 1860, says that at the core of Republicanism there was an unmistakable ambivalence, but con­ cludes that southerners were correct in perceiving in it threats of doom to their society. Robert Johannsen s...

...-CHAMPAIGN ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN Selected Letters of W. D. Howells, Vol. 5, 1902-1911. Edited by William C. Fischer and Christoph K. Lohmann. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. Pp. xiv, 454. $40.00. This volume, penultimate in the series, covers the years 1902-1911. They might have seemed a time when Howells...

... scarcely begun. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 18451915. By Steven Hertzberg. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978. Pp. xiii, 325. $12.00. The general reader and many professional historians as well...

... triumph of Union arms. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN Keats the Poet. By Stewart M. Sperry. Princeton: Princeton Uni­ versity Press, 1973. Pp. ix, 350. $13.00. Mr. Sperry s title led me to hope that he was attempting the dar­ ing experiment of writing on Keats s poems without...

... ambivalence, but con­ cludes that southerners were correct in perceiving in it threats of doom to their society. Robert Johannsen s essay, Douglas at Charleston, analyzes the actions of the Democratic convention and calls it a tragedy of miscalculations. In The Republican Triumph, William E. Baringer...

... insight that there are deep and mysterious caverns within Lincoln that are as yet only dimly revealed. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions ofAmerican Identityfrom Henry Adams to Nate Shaw. By Albert E. Stone. Philadel­ phia...

... there was an unmistakable ambivalence, but con­ cludes that southerners were correct in perceiving in it threats of doom to their society. Robert Johannsen s essay, Douglas at Charleston, analyzes the actions of the Democratic convention and calls it a tragedy of miscalculations. In The Republican Triumph, William E...

.... Johannsen situates Whitman in the broader cultural context of American re­ sponses to the Mexican War in To the Halls of Montezuma: The Mexican War in 264 Michael Moon the American Imagination (New York, 1985), 38, 50-51, 97, no, 115, 133, 308. I draw my rehearsal metaphor for the long-term political...