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...AMERICAN CHARACTER-D. W. Brogan-Knopf...
When he was seven, his attention was attracted by an account of the inauguration of President Taft. That started Denis William Brogan off on a lifelong transatlantic career. He grew up to study at Harvard and become one of Britain's foremost authorities on the U.S. At 44 voluble, high-spirited Denis Brogan is professor of political science at Cambridge, wartime chief of the BBC's American Section of Intelligence. He has taught U.S. history at the University of London and U.S. Government at the London School of Economics, visited 40 States of the Union and written numerous...
...Brogan's The English People: "Brogan does wholeheartedly believe there is one thing that both England and America have in common. That is a sincere belief that 'righteousness' does in fact exalt a nation. And he seems to thank the Lord that both the Americans and British have come to realize that without each other the victory that we all deem is impending would not be possible...
Hollywood heard some winged words last fortnight. They came from a learned don at Cambridge University, Denis W. Brogan, able historian (of the U.S. and French republics) and professor of political science. Wrote he in the New York Times...
Hollywood, which had not planned it just that way, took a bow after Historian Brogan's statement. Hollywood might also have reflected that, if distorted images had so moved Europeans, what might a truer reflection of American life have done...