Books: Leif the Lucky to Lincoln

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THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY, Vol. 1, The Rise of the Union—James Truslow Adams—Scribner ($3.50).

No one who has read his books would accuse James Truslow Adams of being a merely theoretical historian, in spite of his recent best-selling thesis, The Epic of America (TIME, Oct. 5, 1931). Conscious of the fact that no historian can afford to theorize too much, that his function is primarily to record rather than interpret, Historian Adams has manfully tackled a man-size job: a recasting in up-to-date...

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