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AMERICA'S TRAGEDY-James Truslow Adams-Scribner...
Three years ago James Truslow Adams described (in The Epic of America) what he called "the American dream"-that state of spiritual somnambulism in which all men were to have an equal chance in a brand new world. Like most patriotic U. S. citizens, Author Adams regards this idealistic belief as the essential promise of his country. Last fortnight, in more realistic vein, he described one of the tragic fulfilments of the U. S. dream. Soundly documented and popularly written America's Tragedy traces U. S. sectionalism from its colonial beginnings to the aftermath of the Civil...
Departing for "several years" in Europe, Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian James Truslow Adams declared: "A real recovery . . . seems to carry all before it, despite man's foolishness. . . . Almost no imbecility can prevent its rise. Even Congress will have to make some terrible blunders to stop...
...would be unfair to judge Mr. Agar's work on any such basis as this. For although he assumes the unfortunate manner, in such cases, of one imparting state secrets, his original intent encompassed far more than a superficial reduction of Messrs. Samuel Eliot Morison and James Truslow Adams. "The People's Choice" was inspired by the logical connection between the problems which confront Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the coronation of Democracy with its owners in 1829. His thesis, conveyed through the apt medium of presidential biography, is briefly this: since 1789, America has progressed through three cycles...
Princeton University Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Historian James Truslow Adams (The Epic of America) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Author Andre Maurois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Herbert Putnam, director of the Library of Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...