Wednesday, March 6. 1963 University Daily Kansam
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HISTORY OF BIGOTRY IN THE UNITED STATES, by Gustavus Myers (Capricorn, $1.65).
Gustavus Myers died in 1942, but Henry Christman has added chapters on such matters as the White Citizens Councils and Senator McCarthy to reinforce a work of history that may be the best thing of its kind ever done.
Myers takes us back into colonial times to show that bigotry is not only a contemporary institution. We read about colonial repressions, about 19th century nativism, about Know-Nothingism and the Ku Klux Klan, about southern demagogues and Henry Ford and the German-American Bund.
The story is engrossing, at times depressing, frequently frightening. Students of public opinion and propaganda are especially advised to examine this excellent book, now available in paperback.
RUSSIA AND THE WEST UNDER LENIN AND STALIN, by George F. Kennan (Mentor, 95 cents).
In the New Yorker, Edmund Wilson called this history "one of the most important books since the end of the last war . . . an overall view that transcends the provinciality of so much of our foreign policy and embraces the whole immense area from Washington to Peking."
Few persons are as well qualified as George F. Kennan to write about our relations with the Soviet Union. He is generally considered the author of containment, and was for many years our ambassador to Moscow.
In this book he gives us understanding of Russian behavior and of significant figures of the past 40
years—Wilson, Lenin, Stalin. Molotov, Hitler and Roosevelt. Here is an exceptional history.
THE WINNING OF THE WEST,
by Theodore Roosevelt (Capricorn,
$1.45).
The Winning of the West" was, of course, a multi-volume book. In this volume we find several episodes from it, with an introduction by the well known scholar of American civilization, Harvey Wish.
The special Roosevelt approach to history is evident here. This exponent of the vigorous life could be expected to approve highly of the muscular types who dominated our early history.
So we have here stories of the early frontier, of Boone and the men of the Long Rifles, of the Indian unrises, of the Revolution and the campaign of the great George Rogers Clark, of the early settlements, the state of Franklin, the defeat of St. Clair and the victory of Mad Anthony Wavne, and finally the Louisiana Purchase and the beginnings of exploration in the Far West.
THE TRAMPLING HERD, by Paul L. Wellman (Doubleday Dolphin. 81 15)
Though Paul Wellman is no Frank Dobie, or no Walter Prescott Webb, he has given us here a workmanlike history of the cattle industry and its many ramifications. Its most serious failing is that Wellman long ago fell into the trap set by the deifiers of Wyatt Earp & Co., and we have here further glorifications of these early-day hoodlums.
The best chapters deal with the cattle and the cattlemen, not the
gunfighters. Wellman starts with the Spanish conquistadors, and we see the introduction of cattle to the plains. There is the story of the Longhorns and the long trail drives and the great fortunes, of barbed wire and the wild towns in Kansas and elsewhere. It is a consistently readable book that could have benefited from closer attention to scholarship and less looking toward the best-seller lists.
THE NEW JAZZ BOOK, by Joachim Berendt (Hill and Wang,
$2.45).
He breaks his story down into the styles of jazz (a historical approach), the musicians, the elements, the instruments, the big bands, the combos, the dialectic of modern jazz, and a working definition.
Here, for American readers, is a story of American jazz written by a European. There is almost nothing to quarrel with. It is thorough, absorbing, not overly technical, and the purists of any jazz cult are likely to find their favorites represented.
That may be a problem, of course. For Joachim Berendt seems to feel that jazz does not belong to just New Orleans or Chicago, or St. Louis or Kansas City. Each has made its contributions, he says, and he proceeds to tell us just how.
There are full portraits of many performers, too many to list, though the names include Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holliday, Mahalia Jackson, Shelly Manne, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, Bessie Smith, Jack Teagarden, and all the
other names that can start arguments and involved discussions in many circles of America today.
BUT NOT IN SHAME, by John Toland (Signet, 95 cents).
This is the story of the United States in its first six months of World War II after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. The book received a prize from the Overseas Press Club. In writing the book, John Toland traveled more than 75,000 miles, visited eight countries, and interviewed 800 persons.
To tell the story, he does such things as to flash from the battlefield to command posts. There are 16 pages of photographs to help tell the story most Americans were living 21 years ago.
THE FOUNDING FATHERS, by Nathan Schachner (Capricorn,
$1.45).
Since its publication in 1954 this excellent and comprehensive history has achieved a reputation as being one of the best depictions of the early, troubled years of our republic. The approach is warm, and Schachner does not work overtime to take sides in the Federalist-Republican dispute, though obviously he gives considerable attention to it.
Schachner credits our early success to the amazing men who ran the country — Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Jay, John Marshall, and the other names we revere.
He contends that all were men of ability, who got us through critical times and troublesome issues. Of special interest is the consideration that this is a book for the general reader as much as for
the student of American history, for Schnachner writes lucidly and entertainingly, as well as with high scholarship.
THE LONESOME ROAD, by Saunders Redding (Doubleday Dolphin, $1.45).
Redding himself is a Negro, and he begins his story with the participation of the 54th (Negro) Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War. He then judges Negro accomplishments up to the historic Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954.
In the current glut of paperbacks it is refreshing to point to one like this, a serious, dignified history of a little-known subject—the Negro in American history.
DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Walter White, and many whites as well as Negroes—their accomplishments are recorded in this fine book.
BEYOND THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN, by Wallace Stegner (Sentry, $2.45).
This is a big, beautiful history, in the great tradition of Bernard DeVoto's histories of the West. Devoto himself provides the introduction for his friend, Wallace Stegner, who tells here the story of the exploration of the Grand Canyon.
The hero is the great explorer, John Wesley Powell, leader of the Rocky Mountain Scientific Exploration Expedition. He is one of the unsung names in American history.
It is a thorough and vivid description of the back-breaking, history-making expedition in the vast lands of the lower Rocky Mountains. Lovers of American history should buy this one.
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