Abstract

Senator Crane of Massachusetts

The article focuses on the book "W. Murruy Crane, a Man and a Brother," by Solomon Bulkley Griffin. The book about the U.S. Senator W. Murruy Crane of Massachusetts has been written by one of his intimate journalistic and personal friend. Senator Crane was undoubtedly one of the most important statesmen in the recent history of the U.S. It is therefore regrettable that Griffin does not give readers a larger analysis of the immense national issues which Crane faced and a larger analysis also of reasons why Crane adopted policies which earned for him, in the estimation of the Left Wing of American politics, the "bad eminence" of being regarded as the blackest feather in the Right Wing. The book, however, is delightfully local. It is primarily interested in Crane as a neighbor in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.