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These words were spoken just 70 years ago, by a now-forgotten U.S. citizen named William Gilpin.* Last week Bernard De Voto, Harper's Easy Chair editor, dug this early geopolitician out of the dusty stacks of U.S. history, showed him to be the author of some amazingly prophetic geopolitical ideas...
Editor De Voto, discounting some of Gilpin's "deuces-wild science," believes that "Gilpin's reading of the American experience is essentially sound" and observes that many of the predictions about the U.S. have been fulfilled. He notes further that geopoliticians who followed Gilpin "groping among inscrutables to make out the shape of the future, all ended by deciding that Russia would be momentous...
...Juniors Voto...
...Morrison's is that of the annual Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a literary group that meets the last two weeks of August at Bread Loaf Inn near Middlebury, Vermont, to criticize and discuss each other's poems, short stories, articles, and novels. Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost, and Bernard De Voto are on the staff. Morrison has himself published several volumes of verse, including "Serpent in the Cloud," 1931, and "Notes on Life and Death...
...Voto further explained that if Parkman had employed the same historical acumen in the "Oregon Trail" that he later showed in his studies of pre-Revolutionary Canada, that book would have been invaluable history as well as fiction...