“Mr Clark wanders in and about his subject in a chatty reminiscent fashion, illuminating many little known corners of party politics, bringing before the reader a brilliant procession of public personalities and always indulging in sparkling anecdotes. The serious reader will be troubled by the lack of sequence of political events.”
+ − Booklist 16:278 My ’20 Boston Transcript p9 Mr 27 ’20 550w
“The unity of the narrative is badly jumbled; a literary hack, hired to revise the manuscript, would have cut it down from a third to a half and with ease have straightened out the illogical arrangements, the crudities of the paragraphs, the vain repetitions, and tiresome platitudes.” C. W. Alvord
+ − Nation 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
N Y Times 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 3150w
“No student of political history will be able to omit this voluminous account from his list.”
+ N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 110w
“Genial humanity and wisdom, shrewd and kindly observation of men and affairs—these are the outstanding qualities of Champ Clark’s reminiscences. The wisdom varies in comprehensiveness and in degree of illumination; the humanity is constant. It is remarkable how little of the bitterness of controversy or the roughness of saw-edged sarcasm there is in any part of Mr Clark’s book.”
+ No Am 211:713 My ’20 2250w + − Review 2:460 My 1 ’20 1400w + R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 180w