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Carl Van Doren • 228 Items / 1 Set, 41 Books, 95 Articles, 84 Reviews
Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin (1950)
by Carl Van Doren
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    Franklin's Sister Jane (Review)
    Albert Guerard
    Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
    1. Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
    The Nation, October 7, 1950, p. 316
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    Ben's Sister (Review)
    Adrienne Koch
    Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
    1. Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
    The New Republic, October 23, 1950, p. 20
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    A Century in One Woman's Life (Review)
    J.H. Powell
    Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren
    1. Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
    The Saturday Review, October 21, 1950, p. 19
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    American History (2 Reviews)
    William E. Lingelbach
    The Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom, by Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, ...
    1. The Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom by Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, and Jane Mecom, ...
    2. Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
    The American Historical Review, April 1951, pp. 588-589
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    Briefly Noted (16 Reviews)
    General
    1. The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
    2. The Bewitched Parsonage by William Stanley Braithwaite
    3. War and Civilization by Arnold J. Toynbee and Albert Vann Fowler
    4. Jane Mecom: The Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
    5. The Wisdom of the Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    6. Snow, Ice and Penguins by Charles Lee
    7. People Named Smith by H. Allen Smith
    8. Pilgrims of the Night by Edward E. Swanstrom
    9. Science and the Goals of Man by Anatol Rapoport
    10. The Art of T. S. Eliot by Helen L. Gardner
    11. The Popular Book by James David Hart
    12. The Making and Meaning of Words by George H. Vallins
    13. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
    14. Portrait Painters by Allan Gwynne-Jones
    15. Symbols, Signs and Signets by Ernst Lehner
    16. English Furniture Illustrated by Oliver Brackett and H. Clifford Smith
    The New Yorker, October 21, 1950, pp. 138-143