| + + − | Educ. R. 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w. |
“Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w. |
“We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w. |
“Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words. Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright blundering.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w. |
“Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and unattained ideals.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w. |
“Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one important way it is soundly informative.”