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Paul A. Palmer

Book Reviews

Winter 1945

Beyond Nationalism

By Paul A. Palmer

The Idea Of Nationalism: A Study In Its Origins And Background by Hans Kohn. Macmillan. $7.50. Justice And World Society by Lawrence Stapleton. University of North Carolina Press. $2.00. The […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1943

A New Freedom

By Paul A. Palmer

The Interpretation of History by Jacques Barzun, Hajo Holborn, Herbert Heaton, Dumas Malone, and George La Piana. Princeton University Press. $2.50. Jefferson, the Road to Glory, 1743 to 1776 by […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1943

Prophet and Professor

By Paul A. Palmer

The Future Of Industrial Man by Peter F. Drucker. John Day. $2.50. The United States And Civilization by John U. Nef. University of Chicago Press. $3.00. “It is always to […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1942

The Hero as Judge

By Paul A. Palmer

Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollck, 1874-1932. Edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe. Introduction by John Gorham Palfrey. 2 vols. Harvard. $7.50   For most […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1941

History without Philosophy

By Paul A. Palmer

Dictionary of American History edited by James Traslow Adams. Five volumes and index. Scribner. $60.00 This work contains over six thousand articles, nearly twenty-five hundred pages: “the result of the […]