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...Washington effetes have decided is that Jimmy Carter seized on the three-martini symbol as the ultimate city evil and thus the banner under which to rally his bucolic forces to charge the real villain, the expense account meal. If so, Carter's instincts were true. Bernard De Voto, writing eloquently back in 1951 about the glories of the martini, explained: "The martini is a city dweller, a metropolitan. It is not to be drunk beside a mountain stream or anywhere else in the wilds . . ." Like Plains...
...veins of Americana have been more assiduously mined than the Western fur trade. From Francis Parkman to Bernard De Voto, scholars have unearthed the routes and reminiscences of the "mountain men" in the 19th century, devoting volumes to their exploits. Surprisingly, Novelist and Popular Historian Walter O'Meara's anecdotal appreciation seems to be the first to deal with the lives of the women of the fur traders and mountain men. Not surprisingly, their relationships with women turn out to be as rich and varied as the rest of the mountain legend...
...study of Twain published in 1920 and revised in 1933, Van Wyck Brooks argued that Twain fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book...
LETTERS FROM THE EARTH (303 pp.)- Mark Twain, edited by Bernard De Voto -Harper...
...Voto had written that the novelist lacked the critical faculty essential to any complete artist, and was merely a collaborator with Perkins on the Scribner "assembly line." Wolfe cut himself free to prove that he could go it on his own. He died of brain tuberculosis four months after submitting a 1,200,000-word manuscript to his new editor at Harper's, who sliced it up to make The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and a book of short stories. In this last torrent of words, the influence of Maxwell Perkins seems...