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van Doren, Mark | January 25, 1928 issue

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"A History of American Life" is an ambitious title for a set of books, however large the set may be. Editors of the twelve volume work are Arthur M. Schlesinger and Dixon Ryan Fox. Schlesinger and Fox know what they are doing. They worked with an extraordinary combination of enterprise and care to produce a series of books which must recommend itself to every American curious after his country's past. There have been other attempts to do something of the sort notably in the series called "Chronicles of America," which among its fifty volumes contains many brilliant essays.

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HISTORY of American Life, A (Book); SCHLESINGER, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1888-1965; FOX, Dixon Ryan, 1887-1945; BOOKS; UNITED States -- History; UNITED States
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