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...George Dangerfield, for his The Era of Good Feelings, a history of the presidential administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, from 1817 to 1829. C| David J. Mays, lawyer and historian, for his two-volume biography, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, a Virginia judge, statesman and political leader...
...Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting flames. Victoria's Heir is a biography both of Edward VII and of the critical period...
...prayed that the Prince of Wales might resemble his "angelic, dearest father in every, every respect, both in body and mind." The ladies in waiting were reassuring. Everybody detected in little Bertie's features a striking resemblance to his father. "In this, as it turned out," says Author Dangerfield, "they were incorrect...