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What holds the book together is Hamilton Basso's industrious attempt to prove that the theoretical works of American statesmen have a practical, working, constant significance in the daily lives of average Americans. The quality that makes it of contemporary value is its reminder of the distance U.S. intellectuals have traveled since Sinclair Lewis' first works: between Main Street and Mainstream there is the difference between an indictment for murder and the studying of a will. Where the plain American appeared to Mencken and Lewis-and to Author Basso in his early works-as a power well-nigh...
...Bull received 50-odd years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...
...years later Lloyd George needed a private secretary. Miss Stevenson accepted the job, for the next 30 years never held another. She worked with her boss during his great days as wartime Prime Minister, accompanied him to the Peace Conference. Other Allied statesmen gallantly dubbed her "the blonde bewilderment" and could not understand why such an attractive young woman would choose the silent, self-effacing role of a secretary...
...Daily Mail bitingly satirized the world-touring U.S. Senators who loosed a flood of U.S. pride and criticism last fortnight. A writer in the Sunday Dispatch laid the blame for the Darlan deal in Africa and the recognition of Italy as a cobelligerent at the respective doors of U.S. statesmen bent on kid-gloving Vichy and U.S. politicians rounding up Italian-American votes...
Seven years ago a sad-eyed little man in a black cape stood up in Geneva and shamed the statesmen of 50 nations. Italians booed and the rest looked away while Emperor Haile Selassie, dispossessed by Italian arms and mustard gas, cried out for international morality...