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JOHN ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (699 pp.) - Catherine Drinker Bowen-Little, Brown...
Catherine Drinker Bowen's John Adams and the American Revolution, a thorough, vivaciously readable fictional biography of "Old Sink or Swim," polishes up lackluster John to his proper historical brightness. The result is a handsome illumination of the first 40 years of John's life, which were both the most exciting and the least known...
...powerful legal intelligence, no longer like roiled water but clear and cold as a New England winter night, to the problems of building a nation. And there, with the Declaration of Independence rammed through the opposition (after a powerful summation of the case for it by Lawyer Adams), Author Bowen leaves her common-sense hero to the cabbage he was to cultivate for the rest of his life-the United States of America...
...Nothing rustles, nothing casts a fluttering shadow: there is something frightening about the very unhauntedness of 'functional' modern rooms," Irish-born Novelist Elizabeth (The Heat of the Day) Bowen wrote in the Saturday Review of Literature. ". . . Atmosphere has been conditioned...
...were elected last night to the Funster's House Committee in the first spring election held by the House. Elected from the Class of 1951 were: Edmund J. Blake, Jr., John F. Freeman, C. Duance Lansverk, and Harold von der Osten. Chosen from the Class of 1952 were: Ralph Bowen, Richard J. Eskind, and Ira H. Peterson...