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ALBUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, COLONIAL PERIOD-James Truslow Adams-Scribner...
...forefathers dress?" asks Historian James Truslow Adams. "What sort of tools or utensils did they use. in what kinds of occupations; what did their houses look like, inside and out; in a word, if we could suddenly step into their world, what would...
...tell much about Author Adams and his view of history and much about the U.S. A businessman turned author, a historian who lives with the consciousness (which he has never quite been able to communicate as intensely as he feels it) that American history is epical and epochmaking, James Truslow Adams has held up against his naturally hopeful outlook the insistent forebodings of the U.S. future that his knowledge gave him. In 1934 he wrote: "We are all of us caught, the selfish and the unselfish alike, in the complexities of the modern order. . . . No previous problem has ever made...
...centuries. But you would never know it to read the books written by the intellectuals of 1942 and 1943. Charles Beard (The Republic), Peter Drucker (The Future of Industrial Man), Hamilton Basso (Mainstream), Herbert Agar (A Time for Greatness), Henry Wallace (The Century of the Common Man), James Truslow Adams (The American), Walter Lippmann (whose The Good Society, originally published in 1937, has just been reissued with a new preface), and Isabel Paterson (The God of the Machine) have all taken part in what might be called a new constitutional convention of the spirit. They have been busy conducting such...
...James Truslow Adams has pointed out that alliance or union between the U.S. and Britain is unnecessary because in crises both countries act instinctively toward the same end. Last week was a crisis week in World War II, and at week's end both Britain and the U.S. appeared to have made their decision. In London, where it was announced that Winston Churchill would report on Rudolf Hess at the next session of the House of Commons, it was hinted that he would go further and rule out peace once more and for all. And in Washington Secretary...