The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

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Intellectuals, academics, and most of the media slapped a halo over FDR to consecrate both his welfare state and his warring.

Online exhibit presenting biographies of several important Americans that reflect the circumstances of their times, providing a personal perspective on the past, and making up a fascinating and ...

"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, Saul Bellow transformed modern literature. He illuminated 20th-century American life through ...

Renowned African-American writers Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham discuss their latest joint project, 'The African-American National Biography'. "The African American National ...

THE fourth edition of this great work—great in two senses of the word—must not pass unnoticed in NATTTBE, and we congratulate the editors on the completion of their heavy task of revision. The number ...