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… America, By Thomas E. Tallmadge. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.50. The American Architecture of To-day. By G. … of any other native art. Within recent months three such studies have reached the public, each with a definite purpose, … while at “moral Oberlin” the Norton and Princeton ideals approach a fusion. In the practical craft courses at …

… as if all the houses emanated the sussuration of comfortable life.  The inhabitants were mostly young, and at … his first cigarette at Peterson’s Pond, shared with his buddies. They had found Johnny Bill wading at the edge. His … It was a passion he’d never known before or since.  Ellen died young of an aneurysm. Six months later Paul nailed a …

… Union , by Michael Chabon. 
HarperCollins, May 2007. $26.95 “You haven’t read any Michael Chabon?” said some guy … & Clay the Pulitzer Prize and Chabon a wide and devoted audience. But no reader of his first novel, The Mysteries of … had hoped that I possessed—the ability to pull off multiple points of view, historical settings, the passage of …

… associates, La Follette had McCarthy on his mind when he committed suicide in 1953. The shared anti-communism between … and senator, Fighting Bob La Follette. When Fighting Bob died in 1925, Young Bob succeeded him, becoming the youngest … a life of its own, and as late as 1949, anti-Communist liberals like Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., were citing it as a …

… The representation inevitably means a taxing authority composed of politicians; and this implies a body of men who … the levying of taxes. It is for this reason that taxing bodies take refuge in those taxes which are least noticeable … receipts from 1922 to 1930: I $151,812,517 $412,745,308 1926 …