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Harvard Historian Edward Channing, for one, called it a work of "almost unrivaled historical judgment." Columbia's Allan Nevins has singled out its first six chapters, plus one chapter of Macaulay, as "the best specimens of social history in English."
After his eldest son was killed in World War I, Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth), late proprietor of the sensational London Daily Mail, endowed a chair at Oxford. Its purpose: to acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel...
Allan Nevins, two-time Pulitzer Prize biographer, took over from Journalist Herbert Agar as "information & culture" chief at the London embassy.
Said Pulitzer Prize Biographer Allan Nevins (Graver Cleveland): "Names of wars are usually inaccurate. What do you say-the Civil War? Or the War between the States, as Southerners say; or the War of the Rebellion, which is the official and rather foolish and unjust name in our records? I...
Nine of the most representative books in the list are as follows: "The Spirit of the Common Law," by Roscoe Pound; "History of England," by George M. Trevelyan; "Pocket History of the United States," by Allan Nevins and Henry S. Commager; "The Republic: Conversations on Fundamentals," by Charles A. Beard...