Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soufhall Freeman - Scribner ($5). Volume I of Author Freeman's massive work of the Confederate warriors (Lee's Lieutenants, TIME, Oct. 26), closed with the aftermath of the Seven Days' battles. Volume II takes the reader from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson. Other famous "lieutenants" included are James Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions of men in action, adding...
...Brash New Orleans Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins...
...freshman class, Gideon finds Peony Jackson. He daydreams about her "shining in a chemise." She marries him. Gideon becomes editor of Rural Adult Education in Des Moines, learns to write reverently of "mothers, duck hunting, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, the Catholic Church, Rabbi Wise, the American flag, cornbread, Robert E. Lee, carburetors and children up to the age of eleven." As a lecturer, he learns to tell the lady on his right that the movies are a pernicious influence on the young, and the lady on his left that the movies stimulate the youthful imagination. Successively Gideon...
...decision really begins in the White House with James K. Polk scheming to get California away from Mexico, Oregon from England. "Who is James K. Polk?" Americans asked when he was nominated. They still ask. Yet Polk, says Historian DeVoto, was "the only 'strong' president between Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig he seems a gentleman...
...Hague case against Studebaker was as weak as it sounded. Around Washington's Jackson Place, national educational hub, it went without saying that...