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BORN UNDER SATURN: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HAZLITT- Catherine MacDonold Macleon-MacMillan...
...Essayist William Hazlitt was in despair. He claimed that his friends were betraying their revolutionary principles, that Napoleon was "the best hope of the Cause of the Peoples of the earth." When he mixed Napoleonic politics with a tumultuous passion for a local lass, the Lake District peasantry beat Hazlitt up. The advocate of revolution fled to Coleridge's house for fresh shoes. Then he stumbled on to Wordsworth's house, where he shook off his pursuers, borrowed enough money to take him home to London, where direct action was a merely literary theory...
...through union leaders, intellectuals, government officials. Its lifeblood is a steady stream of free literary contributions from such heavyweights, high-priced or otherwise, as Hunter College President George Shuster, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook, John Chamberlain, Max Eastman, Ferdinand Lundberg, the New York Times's Henry Hazlitt, Brooklyn College President Harry Gideonse, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Leslie Buell, William Green, Matthew Woll, Walter Reuther- some of whom would be outraged if they were called Socialists or leftists...
...Washington chose the popular books from the best available sales figures; and asked a group of "informed people" to say what books "have most profoundly affected the thoughts and actions of mankind" since 1892. On the jury were Charles A. Beard, Henry Seidel Canby, John Dewey, Jerome Frank, Henry Hazlitt, John Kieran, Walter Lippmann, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Norman Thomas, Carl Van Doren. Their first ten choices, in order of recommendations received...
...Henry Hazlitt was the only juryman to name Joyce's Ulysses. John Kieran, who appeared to miss the point, named as "books that I prize most" the works of Masefield, W. H. Hudson, Rostand...