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...POLITICOS-Matthew Josephson- Harcourt, Brace...
Last week, with The Politicos, Matthew Josephson joined the ranks of the puzzlers. His contribution was a 760-page volume that attempted a dual task: 1) to trace the careers of the Democratic and Republican parties through the four decades after the Civil War; 2) to draw a composite portrait of the professional politicians, party leaders, spoilsmen, local bosses...
Instructive but comparatively tame were the 18th and 19th-Century paintings which Director Plimpton and Stockholm's National Museum Curator Sixten Strömbom had included. Discreetly confined to historical art, the show stopped with such established fin de siècle cosmopolitans as Anders Zorn. Ernst Josephson, contained no work by such up-&-coming young Swedish painters as Ewald Dahlskog and Leander Engstr...
...fortunes in general have risen faster, gone higher, dropped further, created more spectacular characters and lurid scandals than other countries can show, U. S. novelists by & large have stood by, left the field to angry muckrakers, uncritical official biographers, or to such able left-wing analysts as Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) or Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan...
Adapted from two books-a biography of Daniel Drew and The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson-by Joel Sayre, John Twist and Dudley Nichols, The Toast of New York is a lively specimen of prefabricated Americana. It aims to be and is a complete prevarication, impaired only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt...