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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ublic affairs (1902) is entertaining for its sketches of public men, and is also illustrative of the limitations of mind and training in the average American politician. Inimitable are the Reminiscences of Benjamin Perley Poore, with their intimate sketches of men and events around Washington for half a century. The Autobiography of G. F. Hoar (1903) reveals a blind devotion to party in a soul of unquestioned integrity. Surpassing all other narratives by contemporaries is the Diary of Gideon Welles (1911), Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln, rich for the light it throws on personalities and animosities in the cabinet and on political conditions in 1866, and revolutionary in its interpretation of Andrew Johnson. While Northern politicians vied with each other to tell their story, the leaders of the South, with the exception of the military men, were singularly silent, Alexander H. Stephens's Prison diary and John H. Reagan's Memoirs (1906) being the only intimately personal acco
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, Admiral, 29 Dewey, John, 235, 239, 239 n., 248, 254– 57, 257 n., 258, 259, 263, 265, 423 Dial (Boston), 120, 529 Dial (Chicago), 333 Diamond Wedding, the, 45 Diaries of Moravian missionaries, 577 Diary (Sutter), 140 Diary (Welles), 351 Diary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet, 164 Diary of one of the Donner Party, The, 146 Diary of the March with Kearny, a, 143 Dickens, 6, 60, 70, 77, 100, 268, 269, 308, 406 Dickens in camp, 53 Dickinson, Edward, 3 418, 446, 470, 475, 475-478, 479, 541, 546, 548, 557, 558, 563, 566 Webster, Pelatiah, 429 Weeping willow, the, 512 Weevilly Wheat, 516 Weitling, Wilhelm, 344 Welb, 589 Welcker, 461, 462 We'll all go down to Rowser's, 516 Welles, Gideon, 351 Wells, David A., 354, 355, 439, 440 Wells, H. G., 419 Wendell, Barrett, 417, 423 We're marching Round the Levy, 516 Werther, 453 Wesley, 500 West, Max, 359 West, Rebecca, 99 Westcott, Edward Noyes, 95 Western Americ