No comments about The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

No comments about The Man Roosevelt: A Portrait Sketch.

No comments about The sensuous President,.

No comments about Mount Vernon: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine.

1 comments about Jackson : Character in Time : The US Presidents (Character in time : the US presidents).

1. For one whose hazy memory of Jackson from a mandatory American history college course is limited to the wild party that followed his inauguration, Lorraine Ash's one-act play serves to introduce me to the frontiersman who would be inaugurated as the seventh president 23 years later. The setting and the time frame is one day at the Jacksons' log home, The Hermitage, that culminates in his victory of a duel precipitated by his opponent's spreading of gossip related to Jackson's marriage to his beloved wife Rachel.

   Through dialogue and physical description, Ash paints a word picture of the man as an opportunist, as a man proud of his ability to speak with his fists and his gun rather than with words, as a man who stoically endured and recovered from a series of illnesses and injuries, as the first man of the common people and the Democratic party to be elected president. Jackson's voluble denunciation of American Indians and the British gives present day readers a vivid impression of popular sentiments common among the "new" Americans of the early 1800s.

   Ash follows the script with a section that summarizes headlines for the period of Jackson's two terms of office and another section that summarizes his personal history. These two sections greatly enhance the value of the script for the student and for the casual reader; they pack a wealth of history in a few pages.

   Pauline Ellen Lee, EdD

1 comments about Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General (Reprints in Canadian History).

1. Books on this interesting character are not plentiful, therefore it was a must for my library. How reliable are the facts provided? Jeffery gives the impression that Kitchener was victor over the Mahdi in 1898. Elsewhere I am led to believe the Mahdi died soon after Gordon. Did anyone proof read this book? After all it is University of Toronto Press!

1 comments about The Travels of General Grant.

1. I'm not quite sure why anyone would think to republish this book from 1879, which was not well-received back then and not much read in the intervening 125 years. The market for books on Grant's world travels would appear to be slim, yet several books of that genre have recently been published anew. This is an oddity which I cannot explain. In any event, the Headley book is reasonably accurate, though written in the ploding, irritating style that was so prevalent in that age. Headley did not know Grant, nor did he accompany him on his world journey. He basically cobbled together various newspaper articles relating to the trip and then fashioned them together into this book. There is nothing new here and this would be recommended only for those obsessed with Ulysses Grant and who don't have access to the original version.

No comments about Effect of proscriptive or extreme legislation against foreigners in Massachusetts and New England, on free labor, free states, and the cause of freedom and republicanism in the West.

No comments about Summit diplomacy;: Personal diplomacy of the President of the United States (University of Maryland, Bureau of Governmental Research. Studies in government).

No comments about Andrew Jackson An Epic in Homespun.