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… 1763-1893. By Frederic L. Paxson, Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. $6.00. The frontier, as census officials and historians have defined it, had already vanished … settlement the first great period of American history had come to an end, and that our national develop ment during …

… have wide influence. The provinces have no legislative bodies, although the Governor must consult an advisory board … system is somewhat the same. The Minister of Interior appoints a Prefect (starosta) as head of each county, who is … for the destruction of the parliamentary system in 1926. The very fact that the parties no longer had the …

… is told from the perspective of a different animal that has died during the violence. The book follows her highly … author provides a comprehensive list of her sources on her website.)  As was true for Doctorow and Ragtime, Dovey isn’t … MacSweeney. In a slim novel, Luiselli packs in the points of view, forms, references, and visuals; at times it …

… to duck”—to good effect after he was shot. In front of an audience he excelled in expressing grave concern, moral … says it all. Donald Regan, then secretary of the treasury, points to a huge deficit projection on a blown-up bar graph. … by 200 percent, Reagan never knew that the Soviets were not competing with his military budget. At the time Nancy …

… general reader; with increased numbers of practitioners has come not progress but, I think, decline. Nobody seriously … a very few rather than appealing to an educated reading audience. There are of course broad-minded as well as … in France has to be understood in the light of how hard he also tried, having emigrated to London at the age of 21, to …