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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 26, 1964
Histories—from Adams to Michener
M O N T- SA I N T-MICHEL AND CHARTRES, by Henry Adams (Sentry, $2.45).
Among the greatest of modern classics is this description of the architecture, art, attitudes, philosophy, theology, politics, commerce, economics, sociology and literature of the Middle Ages. "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres" has enduring significance in several realms, and like "The Education of Henry Adams" demonstrates the amazing insights of its author.
This Sentry volume gives a normally expensive book to readers in attractive paperback form. It lacks the photographs found in some volumes, but these, after all, are readily available. What makes the book endure is the marvelous prose of Adams.
For Adams became absorbed in medievalism, and in his growing disenchantment with his age more and more found himself, sympathetically at least, a man of an earlier time. In the Virgin he found a medieval symbol comparable to the dynamos of his age which entrapped him so. In the soaring Gothic architecture, notably of the two structures in his title, he found man aspiring in a way that he had not aspired since.
REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY,
1921-1933, by John D. Hicks (Harper
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This volume is in the New American Nation series, by a distinguished historian known for "The American Nation" and "Our Federal Union." It is a review of the years under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, ending with the coming to power of Roosevelt.
Hicks does not merely review government. We see the many national and world conferences on disarmament, the rise of prohibition and its attendant miseries, the mood of isolation sweeping the country, the movies and the coming of radio, the development of the automobile as a national institution, H. L. Mencken and other critics.
The look at America, then, is an overall one, and with the perspective of today, plus the help of the historian, we can see how the depression came about, the national mood, the tragedy that struck in 1929. Here is an important, fascinating story.
THE BRIDGE AT ANDAU, by James A. Michener (Bantam Pathfinder, 40 cents).
Less than a year after the now-historic Hungarian uprising against Soviet oppression James Michener published this volume. It received considerable attention in 1957, and like John Hersey's "Hiroshima" it is a piece of reporting that deserves a wide reading today.
The very young will not remember the Hungarian rebellion that started Oct. 23, 1956, when children, students, workers and housewives for a few days enjoyed freedom, freedom that ended in bloody reprisal. Michener interviewed many of those fleeing Hungary after the Battle of Budapest, and he assisted in the escape of many.
A sweeping view of the age of Jackson is provided in this excellent history, one which probably is inferior to that by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. but still engrossing and discerning.
THE JACKSONIAN ERA. by Glydon G. Van Deusen (Harper Torchbooks, $1.95).
The book itself is somewhat smaller than similar histories of the age, but it does provide a revealing look into that time of ferment and change in national life. Van Deusen, who also wrote what is the best biography of Horace Greeley, treats the Jacksonian era from the 1828 election through the election of Taylor in 1848.
If there is a significant contribution in this book it may be Van Deusen's departure from the traditional view that the Democrats were the heroes and the Whigs the villains. The author sees the time of Jackson as being so much in flux that it is virtually impossible to categorize events and issues as neatly as historians once seemed to succeed in doing.
THE LIBERAL HOUR, by John Kenneth Galbraith (Mentor, 50 cents).
That favorite whipping boy of the American right gives here another cause for complaints. Galbraith loves to snipe at American shibboleths, and several come under his scrutiny in this book.
He discusses the facts of economic competition with Russia and inflation in the United States; myths and misreadings of history from the Civil War to the depression, and then that American institution, the political convention.
He shows how politicians turn ordinary candidates into that amazing giant we see on television. He also turns on his native Canada to show how royalty serves as a force in that democracy.
Galbraith, Harvard economist and former ambassador to India, is author of such works as "The Great Crash" and "The Affluent Society."
ANDRE MAUROIS PRESENTS THE LIVING THOUGHTS OF VOLTAIRE (Premier, 50 cents).
This is another in the Premier "Living Thoughts" series, which already has provided volumes on Jefferson, Thoreau, Emerson, Machiavelli, Confucius, Spinoza, Darwin, Toelstoy, Paine, and Marx. And it contains the predictable writings of this great 18th century iconoclast.
Maurois tells us that a man like Voltaire was necessary to cut under the hypocrisy and pretense of his age. Voltaire still represents to many the enemy of religion, the symbol of Reason.
AN AGE OF KINGS, by William Shakespeare (Pyramid, 75 cents).
These are eight historical plays by Shakespeare, as presented on the television series of the British Broadcasting Corp. The plays are "Richard II," "Henry IV, Part I," "Henry IV, Part 2," "Henry V," "Henry VI, Part 1," "Henry VI, Part 2," "Henry VI, Part 3" and "Richard III."
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