Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PAUL REVERE & THE WORLD HE LIVED IN-Esther Forbes-Houghton, Mifflin-($3.75).
God did not make Paul Revere a very exciting person, and for all her skill and devotion Biographer Esther Forbes has not managed to do much better. But her 464-page biography of the famous night rider, silversmith, dentist, bell caster, copperplate engraver, and revolutionary politician is absorbing reading. Reason...
Biographer Forbes (A Mirror for Witches, O Genteel Lady!) is a persistent rummager in regional attics. She sometimes dotes a little too much on research (even noting a change in the size of the armholes of the Governor of Massachusetts' coat). But her life of Paul Revere is: 1...
The Real Ride. The one thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he...
"Edward Waldo Forbes: A devoted son of Harvard whose foresight and generosity will be long remembered.