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...ground. Most ambitious of the professional jobs was Allan Kevins' Ordeal of the Union, winner of the $10,000 Scribner Prize in American History, which devoted 1,183 detail-packed pages to the brief but politically stormy period 1848-56. Five more volumes are to come. Bernard De Voto's Across the Wide Missouri covered another brief period, 1833-38, dealt lovingly, almost lyrically, with the American fur trade, the Rocky Mountain trappers and their breath-taking country. Mason Wade, biographer of Francis Parkman, did a good job in finding, and carefully editing, the historian's missing...
...opposed to all forms of totalitarianism. A liberal foreign policy, while recognizing with Mr. Wallace, the deficiencies of our State Department and the past failures of our foreign policy, must still have the courage to recognize that on control of atomic energy, on the indiscriminate use of the voto, on the guerrilla warfare in Greece, on the setting up of police states in Eastern Europe, it is the Soviet Union which is at fault, and that the United States must take its stand in the United Nations against these Soviet policies in order to preserve a world of peace...
...chief claim to fame has been his recent activity in contesting the Boston censors and the Hearst press. After Lillian Smith's novel of miscegenation, "Strange Fruit," has been declared obscene literature by the Boston Watch and Ward Society, Isenstadt was approved by Bernard De Voto and members of the Harvard faculty and asked to test the validity of the ruling by selling the book openly in Cambridge. Mr. I, equally enthusiastic about constitutional rights and publicity, gave Cambridge Police Chief Leahy advance notice and was rewarded with a court summons the next morning when he handed Author De Voto...
...LITERARY FALLACY-Bernard De-Voto-Little, Brown...
Professor F.O. Matthlessen's month-long search for a test case on the unofficial banning of the book "Strange Fruit" was climaxed Tuesday when Cambridge police confiscated a copy of the novel sold by Abraham Isenstadt of the University Law Book Exchange to Bernard De Voto, prominent American author...