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The American Scholar •ï¿½71 Years, 284 Issues, 6,139 Articles, 43,357pp
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Twenty-seven outstanding books of the previous quarter
The American Scholar, Spring 1956, pp. 238-252
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 (1955)
    Gordon A. Craig
    6 Reviews
  2. Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought (1955)
    Ernest J. Simmons
    8 Reviews, 1 Readable
  3. Japan's Modern Century (1955)
    Hugh Borton
    6 Reviews
  4. Cities in the Wilderness (1938)
    Carl Bridenbaugh
    The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  5. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 (1955)
    Carl Bridenbaugh
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  6. Three Presidents and Their Books (1955)
    Arthur Bestor, David C. Mearns, and Jonathan Daniels, ...
    The Reading of Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  7. Tinkers and Genius (1955)
    Edmund Fuller
    The Story of the Yankee Inventors
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  8. Architecture, Ambition and Americans (1955)
    Wayne Andrews
    A Social History of American Architecture
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  9. The Development of Academic Freedom in the Unit... (1955)
    Richard Hofstadter and Walter P. Metzger
    9 Reviews, 1 Readable
  10. Academic Freedom in Our Time (1955)
    Robert M. MacIver
    7 Reviews
  11. Facts to a Candid World (1955)
    Oren Stephens
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  12. Further Speculations (1955)
    T.E. Hulme and Sam Hynes
    3 Reviews
  13. The Letters of George Santayana (1955)
    Daniel Cory and George Santayana
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  14. Cells and Societies (1955)
    John Tyler Bonner
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  15. On the Track of Prehistoric Man (1956)
    Herbert Kuhn
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  16. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1955)
    Edmund Wilson
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  17. The Dead Sea Scrolls (1955)
    Millar Burrows
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  18. The Nez Perces (1955)
    Francis Haines
    Tribesmen of the Columbia Plateau
    2 Reviews
  19. The Great Mother (1956)
    Erich Neumann
    An Analysis of the Archtype
    1 Review
  20. Hogarth's Progress (1955)
    Peter Quennell
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  21. Victorian People (1955)
    Asa Briggs
    A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  22. The Rungless Ladder (1955)
    Charles H. Foster
    Harriet Beecher Stowe and New England Puritanism
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  23. Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time (1955)
    Germaine Bree
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  24. The Stature of Theodore Dreiser (1955)
    Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro
    A Critical Survey of the Man and His Work
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  25. Japanese Literature (1955)
    Donald Keene
    An Introduction for Western Readers
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  26. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1955)
    Thomas Herbert Johnson and Emily Dickinson
    Including Variant Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscripts
    11 Reviews, 4 Readable
  27. Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography (1955)
    Thomas Herbert Johnson
    6 Reviews, 2 Readable
  28. Painted Lace and Other Pieces (1955)
    Gertrude Stein
    1 Review
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