BOOKS and MEN In his new, provocative book, CONGRESS: THE SAPLESS BRANCH,Senator Joseph S. Clark accuses the legislative branch of our government of pallid inertia. For an appraisal of Senator Clark’s position we have turned to GERALD W. JOHNSON,historian, biographer, and journalist whose salty, courageous criticism has won him a host of admiring readers over the years.
In the eyes of many Americans, says GERALD W. JOHNSON, ”the reign of Edward VII was,at most, a pale afterglow of the departed Victorian splendor.”But in Sir Philip Magnus’ carefully documented biography KING EDWARD THE SEVENTH, published last month by Dutton,the reader finds a monarch whose nine-year reign profoundly influenced the course of history.
GERALD W. JOHNSON is the author of biographies of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevell, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones. The following article is the last of three pieces drawn from his forthcoming book, HODCARRIER : NOTES OF A LABORER ON AN UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL. to be published in March by William Morrow.
A salty, courageous critic whose happiest days as a newspaperman were spent in company with Frank R. Kent, Henry L. Mencken, and Hamilton Owens, all on the BaltimoreSUN, GERALD W. JOHNSONis the author of biographies of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones, and of ALITTLE NIGHT-MUSIC,as charming a book on amateur musicians as one can remember.
A salty, courageous critic whose happiest days as a newspaperman were spent in company with Frank R. Kent, Henry L. Mencken, and Hamilton Owens, all on the BaltimoreSUN, GERALD W. JOHNSONis the author of biographies of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones, and ofA LITTLE NIGHT-MUSIC,as charming a book on amateur musicians as one can remember.
Biographer, historian, and journalist, GERALD W. JOHNSON was born in North Carolina and has tired happily in Baltimore ever since the SUNPAPERS called him to their editorial staff in 1926. For the past twenty years Mr. Johnson has been a free-lance writer, and he has more than twenty books to his credit, including biographies of Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and F.D.R.
Author and journalist, GERALD W. JOHNSON is a Southern Democrat who was born in North Carolina and who has lived happily in Baltimore ever since the SUNPAPERScalled him to their editorial staff in 1926. A close friend of Frank R. Kent and Henry L. Mencken, he is the author of twenty books, including biographies of Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and F.D.R. As a lifelong Democrat, he is well qualified to review THE POLITICS OF UPHEAVAL,a new volume by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Is the South ready to discard the legal subterfuge by which 30 per cent of its people have been politically, economically, and culturally handicapped? GERALD W. JOHNSON, distinguished journalist and man of letters, a Southerner by birth and residence, believes the region must and will respond in the affirmative.
Author and journalist, GERALD W . JOHNSON is a Southern Democrat who made his start in North Carolina and who has lived happily in Baltimore ever since the SUNPAPERS catted him to their editorial staff in 1926. He has worked and written with Frank B. Kent, H. L. Mencken, and Hamilton Owens, friends all; he has expressed his admiration for Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson in lively biographies: and he has spoken his hopes for and his belief in this country in such books as LIBERAL’S PROGRESS, THIS AMERICAN PEOPLE, and PATTERN FOR LIBERTY.
Author and journalist, GERALD W. JOHNSON is a Southern Democrat who made his start in North Carolina and who has lived happily in Baltimore ever since the Sun papers called him to their editorial staff in 1926. He has worked and written with Frank R. Kent, H. L. Mencken, and Hamilton Owens, friends all; he has expressed his admiration for Andrew Jackson and If Woodrow If Wilson in lively biographies; and he has spoken his hopes for, and his belief in, this country in such books as Liberal’s Progress, This American People, and Pattern for Liberty.