Virginius Dabney

Progressive Democracy. Addresses and State Papers of Alfred E. Smith. Edited by Henry Moskowitz. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. Herbert Hoover, A Reminiscent Biography. By Will Irwin, New York: The Century Company. $3.00. The Democrat [...]

It's a Far Cry. By Robert W. Winston. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $3.00. One seldom encounters a man of conservative habits of mind whose thought-patterns have undergone a bouleversement late in life. We have in Patrick Henry and others [...]

Are freedom of speech, assembly, and religion surviving in the South? Is there equality before the law? Is there genuine collective bargaining for labor? Is the right of suffrage enjoyed freely by the people? Is race prejudice at a minimum? The co [...]

American Slavery—American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. By Edmund S. Morgan. W. W. Norton. $11.95. WHY did such founding fathers as Jefferson, Mason, and Henry, who were outspoken in their denunciation of slavery, nevertheless own h [...]