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...Significance. Biographer Don Carlos Seitz has handled the eye-opening, breath-taking spectacle of the Bennetts with skill that is both accurate and vivid. On finishing the volume, one is sorry that there are today no editor-owners who pause on their yachts to demand a mockingbird or to send a Stanley to Africa...
...Author. Mr. Seitz is 66, an authority on Whistler, Pulitzer, pirates. He is a thorough investigator of uncommon Americans, a resident of Brooklyn. He was business manager of the New York World from...
JUST now, when the political field is crowded with entries assembling for the Presidential race, Mr. Seitz's treatment of some of the disappointed aspirants for the White House holds an unusual interest. Perhaps his pages will offer some value to the beaten--he adduces evidence to prove that the best man has not always won--but at all events they should be valuable to any reader interested in American politics...
From Aaron Burr to William Jennings Bryan, Mr. Seitz deals with eighteen "also rans" in the Presidential sweeps-takes. Famous names appear, like John Calhaun, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Men like John Fremont, James G. Blaine, less in the mouths of the public, receive their...
Meanwhile Burgomaster Seitz, seeing the police helpless, was able to marshal 2,000 reservist soldiers of the so-called Republican Guard. Resolute, these impromptu troops