XI. - AMERICAN HISTORY

(i) T H E UNITED STATES O F AILIERICA

The fourteenth volume of Leonard W. Labaree et al., eds., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Yale U.P., $17.50), covers the year 1767. The first volume of H. Weaver and P. H. Bergeron, eds., Correspondence of James K. Polk (Vanderbilt U.P., $IS), comes down to 1832. T h e second and third volumes of John Y. Simon, ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Southern Illinois U.P., $15 each) contains Grant’s papers from April 1861 to January 1862. The eighth volume of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S . Link (Princeton U.P., $IS), covers from 1892 to 1894. The second volume of Julius Goebel, Jr., ed., The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary (Columbia U.P., $30), deals chiefly with commercial mattex. J. R. Polc, ed., The Revolution in America 1754-1788 (Stanford U.P., $13*50), is a substantial collection on the internal history of Revolutionary America. Much briefer, but still valuable, is Richard B. Morris, ed., Basic Documents on the Confederation and Con- stitution (N.Y.: Van Nostrand, E1.40). John White and Ralph Willett, Slavery in the American South (Longman, 60p), illustrate their account of the peculiar institution with a useful selection of documents.

Marcus Cunliffe and Robin W. Winks have edited a collection of historiographical essays entitled Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (N.Y.: Harper, $10) in which the leaders of the present gen- eration of historians are discussed as well as some of the well-known figures of the past. J. H. Cassedy, Demosraphy in Early America: Beginnings of the Statistical Mind, 1600-1800 (Harvard U.P., $8-jo), is an inquiry into the growth of statistical method. Barton J. Bernstein has edited a challenging collection of essays in Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History (Chatto & Windus, E1.75). Fletcher NI. Green, Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays panderbil t U.P., $8.50) edited by J. I. Copeland, is a collection of twelve essays by that distinguished southern historian.

Gerald Stourzh, Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Govern- ment (Stanford U.P., $8.50)~ is an important study of the political thought of the Revolutionary era. Jerald A. Combs, The Jay Treaty: Political Battleground of the Founding Fathers (California U.P., $7.75), emphasizes the realistic approach to foreign affairs of both Hamilton and Jefferson. James M. Banner, To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 (N.Y. : Knopf, $8*95), is a study of a single state, while Linda K. Kerber, Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (Cornell U.P., $7. jo), analyses the broad disagreements between Federalists and Republicans on non-political as well as political issues. NIerrill Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation (N.Y.: O.U.P., $ I S ) , is a formidable, single- volume study, while Dumas Malone in Jeflerson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 (Boston: Little, Brown, $10) adds a fourth volume to his dis- tinguished biography. Irving Brant has condensed his six-volume biography into one: The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison (Indianapolis:

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Bobbs-Merrill, $12-95)- Otis K. Rice, The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 (Kentucky U.P., $1o-50), is an interesting account of the origins of sectionalism in Virginia.

Edward Pessen in Jacksonian America : Society, Personality, and Politics (Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press, $10.65) presents a new survey of a con- troversial period, and provides a critical bibliography. James C. Curtis, The Fox at Bay: Martin Van Buren and the Presidency, 1837-1841 (Kentucky U.P., $8.50), describes the tribulations of Jackson’s successor in the White House. Leonard L. Richards, ‘Gentlemen of Property and Standing’: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (N.Y. : O.U.P., $&so), shows that those who opposed the antislavery movement in the North tended to belong to the traditional elite. D. B. Cole, Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire (Harvard U.P., $10) adds to the growing number of state studies of the politics of the period.

Eugene D. Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation (Allen Lane, E3*15), examines the institution of slavery and the philosophy of George Fitzhugh. Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (N.Y.: O.U.P., $8.50)~ also is concerned with the philosophical back- ground of the Civil War. An interesting interpretation of the conflict between North and South is provided in David B. Davis, The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style (Louisiana State U.P., $4). New light is thrown on on- aspect of slavery by Robert S. Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South (N.Y.: O.U.P., $7.95). James A. Rawley, Race and Politics: ‘Bleeding Kansas’ and the Coming of the Civil War (Philadelphia: Lippincott, $5*95), presents a succinct and much-needed account of the decisive territorial conflict. Bray Hammond continued his history of banking in the United States in Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War (Princeton U.P., $10).

The history of post-Civil War America is illustrated for rural matters by 0. Gene Clanton, Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men (Kansas U.P., $%so), and for the new industrial society by Joseph F. Wall’s massive biography of Andrew Carnegie (N.Y.: O.U.P., $15) and Robert M. Crunden’s A Hero in Spite of Himself: Brand Whitlock (N.Y. : Knopf, $10). The period of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency has been well served of late. J. J. Huthmacher has written a useful biography of Senator Robert F. Wagner (N.Y.: Atheneum, 1968, $10). Wilmon H. Droze, et al., Essays on the New Deal (Texas U.P., 63-95), contains accounts of the shelter-belt project, the critics of the New Deal, and the battle over the Supreme Court. F. W. Schruben, Kansas in Turmoil, 1930-1936 (iMissouri U.P., 68-50), is a study of the state which produced Roosevelt’s opponent in the 1936 presidential election. James M. Bums has completed his biography of Roosevelt in Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (N.Y. : Harcourt, Brace, $10). Robert A. Divine treats the same period in Roosevelt and World War 11 (Johns Hopkins U.P., $5.95).

JOHN A. WOODS