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The Great American Tragedy
MacDonald, William | September 18, 1929 issue

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This article literary appraises the book "The Tragic Era. The Revolution After Lincoln," by Claude G. Bowers. Bowers has caught the note of vast and ghastly tragedy that sounds persistent through the long years of reconstruction--a tragedy so great and dreadful as to make the very name of popular government a by--word and leave the record of the Republican Party indelibly stained. Bowers set out to do he has done, and done it brilliantly and with power. The elements of tragedy in these dozen years could not have been better chosen if the great corrupter of mankind himself had selected them.

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TRAGIC Era: The Revolution After Lincoln, The (Book); BOWERS, Claude G.; AUTHORS; TRAGEDY; POLITICAL parties; BOOKS & reading
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