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The American Scholar • 71 Years, 284 Issues, 6,139 Articles, 43,357pp
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The Revolving Bookstand
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Twenty-eight outstanding books of the previous quarter
The American Scholar, Spring 1954, pp. 246-252
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The Temper of Western Europe (1953)
    C. Crane Brinton
    6 Reviews
  2. Fire in the Ashes (1953)
    Theodore H. White
    Europe in Mid-Century
    10 Reviews, 3 Readable
  3. Modern China's Foreign Policy (1953)
    Werner Levi
    7 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. The China Tangle (1953)
    Herbert Feis
    The American Effort in China From Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission
    11 Reviews, 2 Readable
  5. How Russia Is Ruled (1953)
    Merle Fainsod
    13 Reviews, 2 Readable
  6. Russian Assignment (1953)
    Leslie C. Stevens, Vice Admiral, U.S.N. (Retired)
    9 Reviews, 2 Readable
  7. Christianity, Diplomacy and War (1953)
    Herbert Butterfield
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  8. Triumph and Tragedy (1953)
    Winston S. Churchill
    13 Reviews, 3 Readable
  9. James Madison: Secretary of State, 1800-1809 (1953)
    Irving Brant
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  10. A Stillness at Appomattox (1953)
    Bruce Catton
    The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  11. Cheyenne Autumn (1953)
    Mari Sandoz
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  12. Academic Procession (1953)
    Ernest P. Earnest
    An Informal History of the American College, 1636 to 1953
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  13. Educational Wastelands (1953)
    Arthur E. Bestor
    The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools
    5 Reviews, 3 Readable
  14. Vermont Tradition (1953)
    Dorothy Canfield Fisher
    The Biography of an Outlook on Life
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  15. Circle of the Seasons (1953)
    Edwin Way Teale
    The Journal of a Naturalist's year
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. The Best of Two Worlds (1953)
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  17. The Word on the Brazos (1954)
    J. Mason Brewer
    1 Review
  18. The World's Rim (1953)
    Hartley Burr Alexander
    Great Mysteries of the North American Indians
    3 Reviews
  19. Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin (1953)
    O.E. Jennings
    1 Review
  20. Boswell on the Grand Tour (1953)
    Frederick A. Pottle and James Boswell
    Germany and Switzerland, 1764
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  21. Freedom and Fate (1954)
    Stephen E. Whicher
    An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1 Review
  22. Southern Renascence (1953)
    Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and Robert D. Jacobs
    The Literature of the Modern South
    4 Reviews
  23. Selected Works of Sacheverell Sitwell (1953)
    Sacheverell Sitwell
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  24. Collected Poems (1953)
    Conrad Aiken
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  25. Gardeners and Astronomers (1953)
    Edith Sitwell
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  26. The Present and the Past (1953)
    I. Compton-Burnett
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  27. The Lying Days (1953)
    Nadine Gordimer
    7 Reviews, 3 Readable
  28. Love is a Bridge (1953)
    Charles Bracelen Flood
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
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