Word: aikman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN FRONT - Duncan Aikman-Doubleday, Doran...
...last week's three books about South America, Duncan Aikman's had the greatest value. A "book journalist" who has also done a job on the equally popular subject of America's Chance of Peace (with Blair Bolles), Aikman has a pleasant dislike of what he calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida...