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...Bible (a King James Bible edited by American Evangelical Preacher Cyrus Scofield). Established in 1896, the New York press now specializes in American history and culture, including jazz and black studies. One of its bestselling works: The European Discovery of America (1971. 2 vols.) by the late Samuel Eliot Morison...
...Emily Morison Beck will talk about the editing of "Sailor Historian: the Best of Samuel Eliot Morison," a new book, the the Junior Common Room of Lowell...
...CONCISE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC by SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, HENRY STEELE COMMAGER and WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG 851 pages. Oxford University Press...
...late Samuel Eliot Morison and fellow Historian Henry Steele Commager published their first version of The Growth of the American Republic. The book swiftly became the standard by which competing histories were measured. Now, just as an abridged and updated version of the Morison-Commager classic appears, there comes a new contender: The Great Republic, written by six scholars-five of them winners of Pulitzer or Bancroft prizes. Their work is handsomely amplified with hundreds of black-and-white and duotone photographs, paintings and detailed maps, and interspersed with pictorial essays in sumptuous color...
...those who still view history as an exercise in belles-lettres rather than statistics, William E. Leuchtenburg's revised and abridged version of Morison and Commager, retitled A Concise History of the American Republic, remains a permanent refreshment. The book is not the physical bargain that The Great Republic is: its illustrations, though superb, are only black and white. But its accounts have a high color. The mission of Franklin, Deane and Lee to secure France's aid during the Revolution, for example, becomes "a spectacle to delight the gods-smooth Ben, sleek Silas and suspicious Arthur selling...