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...place, the ports of New England, when the scene was small enough to be grasped and the time span not too great to be covered, when a kind of flowering of commerce took place, as wonderful in its own way as the literary harvest that followed it. Samuel Eliot Morison's The Maritime History of Massachusetts, touches on this period; Salem and the Indies covers it in detail...
James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author of Salem in the Seventeenth Century and Salem in the Eighteenth Century, His prose is as clear and dry as a salary check. He has written what is probably the best history that there is, factual and authoritative, of an American port...
...honesty of John Adams, the "underhanded tact and hypocrisy" of Jefferson, the "subtle and persistent venom" of John Quincy Adams. Such blunt historical editorializing has scarcely been seen in the U.S. since the days he writes about. But his partisanship for the Federalists is no greater than that of Morison and Brooks and Arthur Schlesinger for Thomas Jefferson and the Democrats...
...into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that was a reproof to postwar disillusionment. Other solid achievements: the first two volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Professor William Langer's approving examination of Our Vichy Gamble, Major General John Deane's illuminating story of U.S. difficulties with Russia as a wartime ally, The Strange Alliance...
...open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed that one of the Harkness millions had been offered Harvard for the construction of decent theatrical facilities for Baker, and was turned down, later to be accepted by Yale...