January 17, 1942 (vol. 5, iss. 2) • Page Image 5
… cPERSPEC TI VES Page Five INSIDE 1776 ... A Review, By Howard Peckham Secre History of the American Rev- olution, by Carl Van Doren, Viking, New York, 1941, 534 pp. $3.75. CARL VAN DOREN belongs to that all-too-small group of scholars who can also write well. Doubtless this talent is his be- cause he was first a professor of English, then an editor, critic and biographer, and lately a historian. His Pulitzer prize- winning biography of Be...…