The title to this new book by one of our ablest historians is misleading, while the sub-title actually tells the story. From the angle of journalistic history this is an extraordinary piece of research, exploring the ramifications of opinion making and reportage during a period when revolution was in the making. One gets the climate of opinion, the step by step process by which the links with the mother country were weakened, the legislation in London, the new taxes, the various aspects of resistance, the outbreaks of violence — and their aftermath — all this as the stage against which the major part of the book dealing with the "newspaper war" is set. Then too he gives a flashback to the roots of journalism here- assuming, perhaps, more knowledge of the subject than the average reader possesses; and then goes forward to trace the reflection of revolution in the making in the newspapers, metropolitan, regional, village sheets, and all sorts and kinds of form in which news was distributed and opinion aired. Inevitably, one gets a certain amount of duplication, as one views events- such as the "Boston Massacre" — the "Boston Tea Party" — etc. etc. first from one viewpoint, then another. Tory sheets are given their due consideration. And the overall picture, when the various pieces fall into place, presents a new approach, and a penetrating one, to the ultimate goal of independence. . . . Not a major Schlesinger book, from the point of the general public, but a signal contribution to a specific area of interest.
Pub Date: June 15, 1957
ISBN: 0930350138
Page Count: 366
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: May 22, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1957
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BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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BOOK REVIEW
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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