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...Historian Bruce Catton points out in a glowing foreword, the authors have also given a good example of what the raw material of history looks like, for they offer both the pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the wild rumors that swept Washington, as well as a factual narrative of the events before and after his death. There are not only pictures of Booth's derringer, the chair Lincoln sat in, the clothes he wore; there are also spurious photographs of Lincoln in death and of mawkish funeral...
...were abolished in 1935. But they survive in song and story, cinema and television as strong silent lawmen who all look like Gary Cooper or Lyndon B. Johnson. They are more factually commemorated by Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Frontier) in this famous volume, republished now (with a foreword by President Johnson) for the first time since 1935. But the facts, though they strongly suggest that the Rangers did not always keep their honor high and clear, nevertheless indicate that the organization at worst was a necessary evil, at best an instrument of civilization...
...could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction of a character named Khrushchov; in a foreword, Nabokov explains that the name was chosen innocently, though it has since picked up "comic" resonance...
Pratt wrote in the foreword to the report "that it seems only appropriate to honor John F. Kennedy, whose brilliant career was cut short so tragically. The President's death was an unbelievable shock to all of us, as reflected in his classmates' many references to him in this report...
While the book is limited to the Boston area, the editors feel the idea can be adapted to other communities. "There are few assumptions," wrote Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, in the foreword, "more unrealistic, foolish, and wasteful than the assumption that serious study and work in many fields must be full time...