Reviewed by W: MacDonald
Nation 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w
“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still more or less disabled morally by their late services to national morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of God and the cause of right.” A. J.
+ New Repub 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w
“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.” M. F. Egan
+ − N Y Times p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w
“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are fatal defects in a historian.”
− + Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w
“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in every line.” W. J. Ghent
− + Review 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w R of Rs 62:333 S ’20 130w