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...large one and has long demanded a candid and thorough-going treatment for the use of scholars. "Fifty Years of Party Warfare" is indubitably a notable contribution to the field of American History in combining all the varied movements of the era into a single compact volume. Mr. Lynch has displayed sound scholarship in his power to analize and synthesize his material into a consecutive and highly readable presentation...
Certain sections of Mr. Lynch's book have recently been treated at greater length by Claude Bowers. "Hamilton and Jefferson" and "Party Battles of the Jackson Period" are both written in a colorful and dramatic fashion, enlightened by vivid portraitures of historical figures. Mr. Lynch, however, has no eye for pure dramatic effect. What he aimed at was primarily a lucid, accurate narration of events. Yet his subject is often so dramatic in itself that any efforts to make it more so might well have been abortive. Thorough documentation and adherence to fact need not deter one from finding...
...North Dakota mobsters wore masks, but did not shoot holes in the dangling body. "Lynch law in North Dakota should not be tolerated," announced Governor George F. Shafer...
Dive--Harvard: J. P. Duane '32 and R. G. Luckey '31; M. I. T.: Lynch and Crick...
...impromptu scene was edifying. The picture of 3500 "well-groomed decent citizens"--the epithets are culled from the Associated Press--shouting at the top of their lungs to "punch" Lindsey, to "lynch him" is only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate of companionate marriage, who is sincere if nothing else, being snatched from the rioters by four burly detectives. Howis of glee must attend the non-partisan when he reads that this formally attired herd docilely returned to their pews, no longer menaced by the black sheep, sand "Fight the Good Fight...