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...views I hold in this respect will seem not only lacking in conventional politeness but lacking also in substantial precedent. The first is true: the second is an error. The same ideas have been expressed in every generation for a hundred years. Emerson, Upton Sinclair, and Charles Sumner, all at one time or other, spoke directly of the hypocritical and self-serving character of Harvard College...
Donald brings with him numerous works on the political, social and intellectual history of the 1861-1877 years--including the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil...
...Donald has written almost exclusively about what he calls "the other side"--the North and the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. While not a southern historian per se, he continues examining the southern people: "I want to know why they responded as they did to Lincoln, Sumner and others. This is part of my own coming to terms" with the southern experience, he said...
F.D.R. used to ask the agency to dig up dirt on his enemies, and he called off investigations of his friends, notably Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who had been accused of homosexual behavior. "Mrs Roosevelt would also make some unusual requests," Sullivan cryptically writes...
...most exciting American film so far this year. There are moments and whole sequences here that stand among the best Peckinpah has ever achieved: a raft moving down a muddy river, a ragged family huddled on board; the final meeting of Gar rett and Billy back at Old Fort Sumner at night, with men moving like apparitions and dust blowing like a rasping fog. The whole film has a parched, eerie splendor that no one could really destroy...