+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 155. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Considering the limitations imposed by the nature of the task assigned to them, the credit of fully maintaining the high standard set in the preceding volumes of the ‘American nation’ series and of closely approximating the ideal standard for works of this class must be accorded both to Professor Channing and to President Babcock.” Marshall Brown.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 12: 158. O. ’06. 2600w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)
“The book is written in an attractive style in which few errors of literary taste occur and is pleasing in appearance. The text seems free from mistakes: but the foot-notes contain some that are troublesome.” Frederick W. Moore.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 162. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Professor MacDonald’s contribution is, thus far, the best concise and brief essay upon Jackson’s two administrations. For a lucid and temperate statement of all but one of the dominant questions during Jackson’s presidency. Professor MacDonald’s volume is adequate.” Charles H. Levermore.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 164. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 15.)
“One feels, indeed, in this volume as well as in others of the series, the inadequacy of treatment of these deeper undercurrents of economic and social change, not only as concerns the assignment of space, but in the lack of a fresh individual investigation. There is not the intimate knowledge of the field evidenced in the chapter on political history.” Albert Cook Myers.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 245. Ja. ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.