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...introduced characters and forgot all about them, started exciting episodes and neglected to say how they turned out, and put in entire historical documents-such as the Mayflower Compact and the text of Roger Williams' defense of freedom of conscience. Otherwise, it is the story of the Windoms, Winshores, Winwolds and the rest; of scoffers and cynics doing the devil's business in Plymouth Colony; of divided loyalties in Revolutionary days; of great talkers, doers, doubters and drinkers in the days before the Civil...
...voluntary censorship, and it was ready & anxious to print any news it could get. In trying to cover the four-power talks on Germany, the foreign press corps in Moscow, now down to a corporal's guard, ran into a new kind of four-power agreement: an unbroken compact of silence. It led to some of the most frustrated reporting-and wildest guessing-since...
...Deals." Sixteen floors up in the Rose Room, some 400 photographers, radiomen, television men and newsmen assembled for the Dewey press conference. Dewey walked in-a small, compact, aggressive man. For the space of five solid minutes, while photographers shot him, radiomen adjusted microphones, moviemen flapped their arms around his head in signals, he held his mouth in a radiant, frozen smile. "How do you feel, Governor Dewey?" In an emphatic baritone, pausing after each word, he said: "I feel swell...
...flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
This new one-volume history of the American Revolution is as coldly dispassionate about a passionate subject as an indictment for murder. It is doubtful whether any other study of the revolution is at once so compact and so inclusive, or succeeds so well in avoiding the myths of the professional flag-wavers or the narrow materialism of the muckrakers...