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...AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS by Donelson F. Hoopes. 159 pages. Watson-Guptill. $25. The U.S. is currently revaluing upward much of its own past painting. In this book a young art historian discovers that Impressionism itself was not just a Parisian invention but was struggling to be born in America at the same time as in France. Hoopes tends to claim as an impressionist anybody-from Inness to Glackens-who did not paint in a strictly academic manner, but the book will introduce the fine but neglected works of such painters as John Henry Twachtman and Abbott Thayer...
...East. The West was a different story, however, and slowly the federal vise tightened on the vital Mississippi. One improbable name, Ulysses S. Grant, stood out, and as defeat followed defeat in the East, Northerners still remembered his blunt demand for the "immediate and unconditional" surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862: "I propose to move immediately upon your works." Donelson surrendered. Finally in March 1864, Lincoln himself remembered, and Grant was given charge of all the Northern armies, Moving East to take personal command of the ill-starred Army of the Potomac. Lincoln had found his general, and though...
...Senate office behind, Lowenstein was elected president of the National Student Association (NSA) during the summer of 1951. Ivanhoe Donelson, a former SNCC leader, and others in the New Lelt relate his NSA presidency with his involvement as an observer of the Dominican Republic elections of 1965. The unexpected election of conservative Balaguer aroused Leftist cries of a fixed election. The observers, led by Norman Thomas, reported that the elections were reasonably fair. As a consequence Lowenstein is still accused of being a CIA agent. As far as can be determined Lowenstein wasn't offered money from...
...first battles Grant was repeatedly taken by surprise. He was beaten at Belmont and just barely held the field at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. These near disasters taught him a second lesson: "In every battle there may come a moment when each side is fought out and ready to quit." At that moment, victory goes to the man who attacks. His determination was always to destroy the enemy, not just to defeat him, and his terms of "unconditional surrender" have often been part of U.S. strategy since...
...voices echo from the grassy graves of the Civil War-Stonewall Jackson, vibrant and vital, writing his wife about his glory at First Bull Run: "God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General...