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"Heroic Historian"
Filler, Louis | February 6, 1943 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. In "Francis Parkman," author Mason Wade has felt some need for justifying a new life of Parkman, even one which for the first time treats him adequately. This "last" of the Boston Brahmans-as Wade will have it, is no sympathetic figure. Like many of the other formulators of the "genteel tradition," he was marked by his anti-democratic bias, lack of interest in the great events and popular movements of his time, and smug satisfaction with a circle and town which became less and less the country's hub. Something, however, remains for the general reader: Parkman's fascinating youth. This fills the greater portion of Wade's biography.

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LITERATURE; AUTHORS; WADE, Mason; BIOGRAPHY; WRITING; AUTHORSHIP
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