Word: brant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what I'd do without an hourly solitary cigarette in an exam," claims Mary Brant, Radcliffe '51, who opposes any merger. Harvard also has objections: "Girls are all right in classes, but in exams you have to concentrate," muttered an Eliot House sophomore recently...
What he promises but doesn't deliver (in either volume) is a "human" Madison. Perhaps no biographer could. The Father of the Constitution was once described as a man who never said or did an indiscreet thing. And though Brant is scornful of those who have established his hero as a "disembodied brain," he has exhumed nothing that resembles flesh & blood. Madison was a prodigious worker, a great student of government and one of the best-read men of his time. But most readers will find him a pretty cold fish who swam best in muddy political waters. Brant...
...liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...
James Madison: The Nationalist is Volume II of a massive biography that dwarfs all other studies of the fourth U.S. President. When Volume I appeared in 1941, Historian Henry Steele Commager predicted that Brant's work might become "one of the really important biographies in our literature." Pegging away (in Kissimmee, Fla.) at his 2,000,000 notes and his 12,000-card index of Madisonia, Author Brant hopes to finish the third and last volume...
...newspaperman Brant has plunged into source materials that professional historians have so far made little use of. His richest pickings were longhand copies of French diplomatic correspondence in the Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history...