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...Island estate where Henry L. Stimson had lived for 47 years. They gathered to pay last respects to the ex-Secretary of War who had been in the Cabinets of four Presidents. The will he left was businesslike, but he had already written a final testament. It was the "Afterword" to the memoirs Stimson wrote three years ago. Quoted at his funeral, it bequeathed a faith for his unpeaceful times...
...Unvanquished, The Last Frontier, Conceived in Liberty, Citizen Tom Paine), Author Fast established a reputation for giving history a square deal. But readers whose knowledge of Reconstruction is confined to textbook tales of carpetbaggers and scalawags will be astounded by his new thesis. Anticipating disbelief, Fast declares in an afterword that the truth of his story is documented, but "the very memory was expunged" by powerful forces which "did not hold it to be a good thing for the American people to know...
...afterword on Wolfe and his working methods, Editor Aswell mentions, among other unpublished manuscripts, the novel K 19, in which Wolfe tried to dispose of his obsession for trains and which, greatly reduced, became the tremendous first section of Of Time and the River. He adds a ghostlike fact: The number of the Pullman which took Wolfe's family, on the same train with his dead body, back to Asheville...
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...poem gives this legend in simple and unimpressive language. Somehow the note or afterword following the piece is far more interesting and sound than the poem itself. This gives the origin and what history is known concerning the legend. Taken all in all the poem is rather unconvincing but the interest in the legend is enough to make the work worth reading...