The Real Lee The North won the Civil War
A review of Marshall W. Fishwick's LEE AFTER THE WAR highlights Robert E. Lee as both South’s patron saint and a complex figure. The book portrays his postwar years at Washington College, his disciplined life, and his influence on reconciliation, education, and Southern identity through religion and duty.
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Robert E. Lee
Lee
Marshall W. Fishwick
Fishwick
Appomattox
Washington College
Lexington
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
South
Army of North Virginia
Reconstruction
Republican Congress
Washington
Virginia Tidewater
Robert Marks
Best Sellers List Snapshot Fiction and Nonfiction
The page lists fiction titles including The Shoes of the Fisherman West Elizabeth Appleton O Hara The Glass Blowers du Maurier Grandmother and the Priests Caldwell City of Night Recky and nonfiction titles The Fire Next Time Baldwin I Owe Russia $1200 Hope The Whole Truth and Nothing But Hopper and Brough My Darling Clementine Fishman Travels with Charley Steinbeck.
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West
Elizabeth Appleton
O’hara
THE
Glass Blowers
du Maurier
Grandmother
Cald
Recky
Baldwin
Russia
Hope
Hopper and
Brough
Clementine
Fishman
Charley
Steinbeck
Dear Preceptor The Life and Times of Higginson Review
Anna Mary Wells chronicles Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s life and his ties to Emily Dickinson. The review weighs his abolitionist stance and literary role, noting his influence on Dickinson while questioning how much he shaped her poetry. Asks what Wells proves about Higginson’s preceptorship and Dickinson’s posthumous publication.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Anna Mary Wells
Houghton Mifflin
Amherst
Col
Emily Dickinson
Dickinson
Miss Wells
Mr. Higginson
Miss Dickinson
the Atlantic
Higginson
New England
Thoreau
Emerson
Longfellow
John Brown
Port Royal
S. C
Col. Higginson
Bravo For Fine Concert At Berkshire Music Festival
The Berkshire Festival second concert at Tanglewood featured the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf with pianist Rudolph Serkin performing Mozart. The program included K 408 marches, K 459 concerto in F major, and Serenade in D major. Serkin's performance drew ecstatic praise from a crowd of over 6,000, with the audience demanding a repeat of the final movement.
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Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf
Rudolph Serkin
Leinsdorf
Mozart
Serkin
Bach
Bartok
Not The Wodehouse Bit NIGHT AND SILENCE WHO IS THERE
Pamela Hans ford Johnson presents a frothy study of a lazy English scholar Matthew Pryor invited to Cobb College New Hampshire to oversee Visiting Fellows. The novel blends English drollery with American academic farce through a quirky cast including a Slavonic language expert a spider keeper and an Emily Dickinson scholar.
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Pamela Hansford Johnson
Scribners
Matthew Pryor
Pryor
America
Cobb College
New Hampshire
Miss Johnson
England
Cian
Emily Dickinson
Center
Danger In Latin America The Wine Is Bitter
Milton S. Eisenhower analyzes U S Latin American relations from a personal and policy view The book recounts his fact finding mission as ambassador and adviser and argues for a cooperative hemisphere path toward Alliance for Progress While warning of potential revolutions it calls for economic aid political tact and shared responsibility to achieve peaceful change through understanding
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United States
Latin America
Milton S. Eisenhower
Doubleday
Abilene
Kan
South America
Kansas City
West Point
Argentina
Dwight David Eisenhower
Brazil
Uruguay
Mexico
Milton
South
Milton Eisenhower
Dr. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Eisenhower
South Seas Where the Bong Tree Grows by Ullman
James Ramsey Ullman travels 14 months through Tahiti Bora Bora Fiji and Moorea to observe pre jet era island life. He chronicles billboard beer cans graft disease and debasement yet conveys the islands enduring charm in a travelogue noted by Joseph L Benham.
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Ullman
South Seas
South Pacific
Stevenson
Nordhoff
Hall
London
Michener
Gaugin
Tahiti
Bora Bora
Fiji
Moorea
Islands
Micronesia
Polynesia
Joseph L. Benham
High Point Bookmobile Schedule For Week Of July 29 To Aug 2
The High Point Public Library announces no service Monday through Wednesday during the fifth week. Thursday routes run 9:30 to 4:45 with stops at Barbee Fifth Street W College North Drive Woodrow Forrest Blain Farriss Terrell Drive Kimmons. Friday routes run 9:30 11:45 College Village Brentwood Lowe Friddle Street Austin Street Wesley Place E Russell Street.
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High Point Public Library
Barbee
Fifth Street
W. College
North Drive
Woodrow
Forrest
Blain
Farriss
Terrell Drive
Kimmons
College Village
Brentwood
Lowe
Friddle Street
Austin Street
Wesley Place
E. Russell Street
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James Ramsey Ullman
What Perpetual Savings & Loan Association
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