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Douglas Southall Freeman • 36 Items / 9 Articles, 10 Reviews, 1 Set, 16 Books
George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I (1948)
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Young Washington, 1732-54
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Published Reviews
  1. [+]
    American History (2 Reviews)
    Stanley Pargellis
    George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I, by Douglas Southall Freeman
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. II by Douglas Southall Freeman
    The American Historical Review, April 1949, pp. 615-616
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    Young Washington: A Living Portrait (2 Reviews)
    Richard E. Danielson
    George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I, by Douglas Southall Freeman
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. II by Douglas Southall Freeman
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1949, pp. 76-78
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    It Takes All Kinds (2 Reviews)
    Wayne Andrews
    George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I, by Douglas Southall Freeman
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter
    Commonweal, December 3, 1948, p. 198
  4. [+]
    A Great Figure Emerges (2 Reviews)
    L.H. Butterfield
    George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I, by Douglas Southall Freeman
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. II by Douglas Southall Freeman
    The Saturday Review, October 16, 1948, p. 10
  5. Books and the Arts
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    The Young Washington (3 Reviews)
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I, by Douglas Southall Freeman
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. II by Douglas Southall Freeman
    3. Basic Writings of George Washington by Saxe Commins and George Washington
    The Nation, January 8, 1949, p. 47
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    The Literary Sampler (6 Reviews)
    Excerpts and Jottings from New and Forthcoming Books
    1. Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood
    2. The Busy, Busy People by Samuel Spewack
    3. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
    4. Great Paintings in America by Fiske Kimball and Lionello Venturi
    5. Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier
    6. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    The Saturday Review, December 4, 1948, pp. 16-17
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    Briefly Noted (18 Reviews)
    General
    1. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    2. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. II by Douglas Southall Freeman
    3. The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti by G. Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan
    4. Soviet Russia and the Far East by David J. Dallin
    5. Black Odyssey by Roi Ottley
    6. The Reign of Queen Victoria by Hector Bolitho
    7. The Miracle of France by Andre Maurois
    8. The City and the Cathedral by Robert Gordon Anderson
    9. The Fall of Mussolini by Benito Mussolini and Max Ascoli
    10. Five Poems, 1470-1870 by E.M.W. Tillyard
    11. American Sea Songs and Chanteys by Frank Shay
    12. Portrait of G.B.S..~George Bernard Shaw by Feliks Topolski
    13. Handbook of Antique Chairs by Carl W. Drepperd
    14. The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle by K.T. Parker and Antonio Canaletto
    15. Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts by Bernard Berenson
    16. Asiatic Art by H.F.E. Visser
    17. The Hunter's Encyclopedia by Raymond R. Camp
    18. Steelhead by Claude M. Kreider
    The New Yorker, November 6, 1948, pp. 120-126
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    Literary Highlights of 1948 (42 Reviews)
    Amy Loveman
    The Gathering Storm, by Winston S. Churchill
    1. The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill
    2. Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
    3. Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood
    4. The Stilwell Papers by Theodore H. White and Joseph W. Stilwell
    5. The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942 by Samuel Eliot Morison
    6. The Memoirs of Cordell Hull by Cordell Hull
    7. The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943 by Louis P. Lochner and Joseph Goebbels
    8. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. I by Douglas Southall Freeman
    9. Jefferson the Virginian by Dumas Malone
    10. Lincoln's Herndon by David Herbert Donald
    11. FDR: His Personal Letters by Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt
    12. Shake Well Before Using by Bennett A. Cerf
    13. ...It Gives Me Great Pleasure by Emily Kimbrough
    14. Days Without Time by Edwin Way Teale
    15. The American College Dictionary by Clarence L. Barnhart
    16. The Reader's Encyclopedia by William Rose Benet
    17. The American Language: Supplement Two by H.L. Mencken
    18. The Concert Companion by Robert C. Bagar and Louis L. Biancolli
    19. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
    20. The Wine of Astonishment by Martha Gellhorn
    21. Straw to Make Brick by Alan Marcus
    22. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
    23. World Without Visa by Jean Malaquais
    24. Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
    25. The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
    26. Remembrance Rock by Carl Sandburg
    27. The Running of the Tide by Esther Forbes
    28. Toward the Morning by Hervey Allen
    29. The Nazarovs by Markoosha Fischer
    30. Red Plush by Guy McCrone
    31. A Clouded Star by Anne Parrish
    32. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
    33. The Sky and the Forest by C.S. Forester
    34. Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith
    35. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
    36. Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell
    37. Wisteria Cottage by Robert M. Coates
    38. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
    39. The Plague by Albert Camus
    40. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
    41. The Hickory Stick by Virgil Scott
    42. Raintree County by Ross F. Lockridge, Jr.
    The Saturday Review, December 4, 1948, p. 18