Word: hacketts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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November 9--Michigan at Ann Arbor--Referee, J. Maskers, Northwestern, Umpire, J. Schommer, Chicago; Linesman, H. B. Hackett, West Point; Field Judge, J. J. Lipp, Chicago...
...Author Hackett groups his history of Henry around the six wives. Some of them were of profound political influence. The roster...
HENRY THE EIGHTH?Francis Hackett ?Liveright...
...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
...books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour in upon Biographer Hackett, now at his home in Duncannon, Ireland...