Word: truslow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EPIC OF AMERICA-James Truslow Adams-Little, Brown ($3). Not Prohibition but the U. S. itself, thinks James Truslow Adams, is the noble experiment. He calls it the "American dream." In this one-volume history of the U. S. he shows the beginnings of the dream, its sinkings into nightmare, its lapses into crude daylight reality, its volatile rises. Professional historian, no mealy-mouthed panegyrist, Adams has written his epic in curt, clear narrative; but "the epic loses all its glory without the dream. The statistics of size, population, and wealth would mean nothing to me unless I could still...
...Author. James Truslow Adams, no relation to Massachusetts' famed Adams family, though he has been their biographer (The Adams Family, TIME, June 16. 1930), is a roving Manhattanite who traces his ancestry to English settlers in Virginia in 1658. He thinks he has lived long enough abroad to have attained an objective view of the U. S. "Conscious, on the one hand, of no sectional prejudices, but only of being an American, on the other he has grown increasingly conscious of how different an American now is from the man or woman of any other nation." Big-eared...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
...building, met (50 academicians) with 18 delegates from foreign academies, announced the election of five new members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...Author. James Truslow Adams. 52, born in Brooklyn, now living in Manhattan, has written so ably of New England that he is often thought to be a New Englander. Educated abroad, at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, at Yale, he became partner in a Manhattan Stock Exchange firm, retired in 1912 to study history. During the War he served as captain, was detailed to special duty at the Versailles Peace Conference. Other books: The Founding of New England (Pulitzer Prize, 1921), Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic...