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NARRATIVES OF EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE (532 pp.)-John Charles Frémonf, edlted with an Introduction by Allan Nevins-Longmans, Green ($8.50).
Absent from bookshops for decades, the first two reports, as well as a third that was incorporated in Frémont's Memoirs, have now been knowledgeably edited by Historian Allan Nevins, who is the best of Féemont's biographers. That they constitute one of the...
Black Angus, White Fence. Then it was a tired, 189-acre dairy farm, worked for 30 years by Allen S. Redding. Sight unseen, Ike paid $23,000 for Redding's house and land. He split operating costs with famed Presidential Jester George E. Allen, who owns a nearby 80...
THE LEATHERSTOCKING SAGA, by James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Allan Nevins (833 pp.; Pantheon; $8.50). In a heroic effort to save one of his favorite authors from the oblivion of an unread classic. Columbia University's versatile Historian Allan Nevins has undertaken to streamline Fenimore Cooper for moderns. A...
FORD: THE TIMES, THE MAN, THE COMPANY, by Allan Nevins, was a long, steady look at the stubborn, imaginative mechanic who stands as a symbol of U.S. industrial daring. Even more, the book was the definitive history of a mighty business in which Ford was not the real businessman.