ADMIRABLE HISTORY OF AMERICA'
Barnes, Harry Elmer
'Admirable History Of America' REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORY, by Jeannette P. Nichols and Roy F. Nichols. Appleton-Century, 2 vols. $3.50 each. Reviewed by Harry Elmer Barnes There...
...From the standpoint of approach, selection and distribution of material, and organization, this is probably the best general college text in existence for the study of American history...
...It is not a controversial book, but it does provide the student with sane judgments and verdicts on the chief episodes 'and issues of our development...
...If this emerges into effective practice, students will find themselves especially fortunate to have at hand the admirable two-volume text by Mr...
...Reviewed by Harry Elmer Barnes There has been much agitation in behalf of further study of American history...
...Finally, the authors very fortunately refuse to be bound by the conventional historical etiquette, which forbids dealing with controversial issues or passing judgments on personalities and situations...
...The style is informal and very interesting, and commendable attention is given to social and intellectual history, though enough political and diplomatic history is included to provide everything necessary in a general survey of American development...
...In the light of the fact that many authors of textbooks in American history are revising their earlier editions and rewriting this material in terms of the epic of the United Nations and of God's indubitable approval of rabid interventionism, it is gratifying to find that Professor and Mrs...
...It seems to be understood by the authors that social and cultural history cannot/ be intelligently presented, if it is merely grafted on to an account of political history dominated by the Washington scene...
...and Mrs...
...The authors commendably place themselves within, and write in terms of, the phase of our history which they are for the time being discussing, thus giving a realism which is rare in college textbooks...
...Nichols show no signs of such mental and moral decay but give us as realistic an account of the background of Pearl Harbor and the war as could reasonably be expected in any book designed for current adoption in our colleges...
...The first volume comes down to the close of the Civil War, and the second brings it from this point to 1942...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 45
