“The people in this narrative are the genuine variety. The character of Susan is a well rounded one. There is nothing commonplace about ‘The book of Susan.’ Mr Dodd writes in a fresh, entertaining style and has shaped his materials with no little skill.”
+ N Y Times 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 530w
“In character depiction, in the give and take of dialogue, and in the incidents, the novel is more arresting than the majority of the American novels of the season.”
+ Outlook 126:67 S 8 ’20 100w
DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD. Woodrow Wilson and his work. *$3 (4c) Doubleday
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“This portrait of Woodrow Wilson is designed to be a brief history of recent times as well as a chronicle of a great career. It aims to set the man in his historical background and to explain the trend of American life during a momentous period of world history.” (Introd.) “It is surely a record unsurpassed; and the fame of the man ... can never be forgotten, the ideals he has set and the movement he has pressed so long and so ably can not fail.” Contents: Youth and early environment; The new road to leadership; New wine in old bottles; The great stage; From Princeton to the presidency; The problem; The great reforms; Wars and rumours of wars; The election of 1916; The United States enters the war: “We are provincials no longer”; Roosevelt or Wilson; The great adventure; The day of reckoning; The treaty and the League; Index.
Booklist 16:343 Jl ’20
“It is fair to admit that Mr Dodd does his work with knowledge, skill, and an independent judgment in details.” J. A. Hobson