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Starting in the mid-'50s, perhaps after publication of Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox in 1953, Americans developed a kind of hobbyist's passion for the Civil War. It may even have been a subliminally sinister fad. The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision reawakened sectional fervors-an Impulse in some to fight it out again, not on crass and specific racial grounds but over the once bloody, somehow romantic battlegrounds of history. Buffs dragged their children in Yankee or Rebel caps over the cemetery farm land of Gettysburg, fast growing commercial. Book clubs...
...does in his moments of emotional oratory, Nixon seems to have gone beyond the bounds of fact and good taste. A sample of Lincoln scholars was appalled. "I'm outraged," said Donald. "I don't see a hell of a lot of parallel myself," said Historian Bruce Catton...
George Balanchine, L.H.D., choreographer. A master of motion and design. Bruce Catton, L.H.D., historian. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.M., musician. Elisabeth Luce Moore, LL.D., civic and educational leader...
Bruce Cation's father was the principal of Benzonia Academy, where cows roamed the campus. Yet obviously the older Catton was a man of some wis dom and sardonic humor. Once, after working unsuccessfully against a county election proposition allowing the sale of liquor, he was asked how he felt. "I feel like Lazarus," he said. Like Lazarus? Yes: "According to the Bible, Lazarus was licked by dogs...
...Bruce and a friend went ski-sailing for the first time on Crystal Lake. The experience was exhilarating: "I do not be lieve that I have ever felt more completely in tune with the universe than I felt that morning." Then, without warning, the ice turned thin, and as Catton looked down he could see only the blackness of the water below. "It was not just my own death that had been down there," Catton writes. "It was the ultimate horror, lying below all life, kept away by something so fragile that it could break at any moment...