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...Part of Cation's popularity rests, to be sure, on the habits of the Civil War buff, who cannot resist buying everything. The addict knows all there is to know about the Civil War, and impatiently awaits the next title so that he can begin the exhilarating task of exposing the author's−any author's−bad judgment. Catton too is a buff; more buff, perhaps, than pedant. And because he is, he makes an ideal guide...
...Churchill was an intensely human hero. He was easily moved to rage or tears; he delighted in mischief and rushed headlong into many an action that he was later to regret. If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian in his ideals and dedi cation to duty. When he became Prime Minister at the nadir of his nation's fortunes in 1940, he was 65-older than any other Allied or enemy leader. He had held more Cabinet posts than any other Briton in history; he had seen more of war than...
Conflicting Traditions. The book that beat out such possibilities as Oscar Handlin's panoramic The Americans or William and Bruce Cation's Two Roads to Sumter is a meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Mass., founded by Puritan settlers in 1638. Generations of orators have sweepingly proclaimed the early towns of New England "a unique experiment in self-government," while many historians have tacitly assumed that the early settlers brought with them a broadly homogeneous body of English law and administrative methods. Historian Powell's achievement...
Dean Sizer will go on teaching his course in "British and American Edu cation since 1870." But his real job lies in raising money, unifying the patchwork school and refocusing its mission. Sizer hopes to put even more stress on practice teaching, but in urban schools rather than the almost exclusively suburban schools that now feed off Harvard. Given the disarray of big-city schools-Boston's are a compelling example-it is high time for Harvard to help out. Happily, Sizer seems to be right on target...
...universities are little more than incubators for budding young revolutionaries. But the speaker was Rector Jorge R. Camargo of Argentina's Catholic University of Córdoba, and his words describe a notable trend in Latin America: the rise of Roman Catholic universities devoted exclusively to edu cation, where the signs on the bulletin board are mimeographed class schedules, not student calls to arms...