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The article reports on the performance of the book industry in the U.S. in 1950. It was observed by Retail Bookseller that the public does not want books worth buying and prefers books that are not acclaimed by critics, including "Star Money," by Kathleen Winsor. The public also bought roughly 200 million paper-backed reprints for 50 million U.S. dollars. "The Mature Mind" remained a bestseller all year.

Presents the profile of U.S.-based publisher William Randolph Hearst. Personal background of Hearst; Academic achievements of Hearst; Use of his newspaper "The San Francisco Examiner," in promoting political campaigns; Qualities of distraction in journalism promoted by Hearst; Contribution of Hearst to the field of journalism; Appointment of Sam Chamberlain as the managing editor of the periodical to promote Parisian sentiments as opposed to Anglo-Saxon tradition; Exposure of the connections between politicians and underworld in the periodical; Features of a campaign carried by he periodical against the Southern Pacific, as the dominant and most bitterly hated monopoly in California of that period; Purchase of the "New York Journal," by Hearst; Efforts of Hearst to increase the circulation of the Journal; Support of Hearst to U.S. orator and politician William Jennings Bryan; Amount of profit generated through all of his periodicals; Books recently published describing the life of Hearst.

The article focuses on the literary works of American writers, who are mainly focusing on the lives of British writers. In the last twenty years most of the new standard lives of English authors have come, not merely from the U.S., but specifically from American universities. Understandably, the British are not excessively happy about all this as they show every time an English literary paper reviews, with a mixture of annoyance and admiration, an American biography of a British author. In England, the study of literature traditionally has been in the hands of gifted men of leisure, or men of affairs whose avocation was books.

Presents several letters to the editor. Information related to Gaspar Portala, a governor of California; Overview of an expedition led by Gaspar Portala; Desires of friends of the psychical researcher Richard Hodgson, to collect material for his biography.

The article focuses on a biography on U.S. President Richard M. Nixon by William Costello. When the editors of journal "The New Republic," asked Costello more than a year ago to undertake a definitive study of the Nixon record, they were not in search of pumpkin papers. Many of the particulars were already in print, but the full story had yet to be presented Costello, a Washington political reporter, is a respected veteran in all news media. Although his wide-ranging review of the Nixon career begins at the beginning with boyhood struggles and includes what is perhaps the first complete factual account of his record in Congress and the Vice Presidency, the focus is on Nixon as campaigner

Names in literary biography are of two sorts — those which in the first flash of thought call to mind printed writings, and those which stand preeminently for living individuals. Author James Russell Lowell's geniality and his manliness appeal to every one who appreciates simplicity and genuineness of character. His moral earnestness, his ideality, and the peculiar shade of his patriotism mean most, perhaps, to Americans of the conservative New England type. His bookishness, his minor pedantries, and the finer flavor of his individuality attract the especial sympathy of those who, if they do not live the academic life, have breathed the academic atmosphere.

Reflects on the influence of Frederick Jackson Turner's article "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." Use of the term "frontier" in the article lent some countenance to the idea that he was speaking of physical geography rather than social and economic arrangements; Biography of Turner along with details of his academic accomplishment; Influence of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland on his thinking; Conception of American history, which Turner presented in this article at Chicago, Illinois in 1893 contained twelve major elements.

From 1835, when Samuel Augustus Maverick made his first trip to San Antonio, down to this day, the name of Maverick has always meant a great deal in Texas. Rena Maverick Green, who is a granddaughter of this original Texas Maverick and whose own contributions to life in San Antonio have been considerable, has spent many years in bringing together papers dealing with the life and times of Maverick now she has edited them with competence and scrupulous scholarship and seen to their publication. The result is a good-looking book "Samuel Maverick, Texan 1803-1870: A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs."

Focuses on the public gathering after the death of former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his house in Hyde Park. Memories of the wife of Roosevelt about her first meeting with Roosevelt and their relationship; Speeches delivered by U.S. Secretary of Interior, Julius A. Krug and President Harry S. Truman; Political achievements of Roosevelt; Types of books read by Roosevelt; Biography of Roosevelt described in the book "Hell-Bent for Election."

The article presents information related to the publication of books in the United States. John Langdon Sibley, librarian of Harvard College, has for many years been engaged in preparing biographical sketches of the first 225 graduates of the Academic Department of the university, and now proposes, if he receives sufficient support, to publish them in a single volume. The London "Spectator" is a very clever paper, as everybody knows, and as honest a journal, beyond a doubt, as any that ever existed, but there is no doubt either that, now and again, in one of several ways, it allows its enemies a chance to mock at it and cast derision upon it.

The article features John E. De Tore, a self-educated painter in the U.S. De Tore was born in Syracuse, New York in 1902. He studied adult education classes in art from 1950-1951 at Everson Museum in Art in New York. De Tore won awards in watercolor including the Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibitions, Binghamton, Cooperstown and a Ranger Fund Purchase.

This article presents information on the book "Grover Cleveland: A study in Courage," by Allan Nevins. Grover Cleveland, U.S. President, and his age have found their biographer in Allan Nevins. The qualities of the U.S. President and the era are subtly mingled in the historian. Cleveland was thorough, industrious, gifted with enlightened common sense; Mr. Nevins has, preeminently, the same qualities. If Cleveland worked often until two or three in the morning on state papers, Mr. Nevins must have maintained a similar grueling pace in his foraging among documents and the living reminiscences of old men to complete so Boswellian a biography.

The article provides information on the book "Life and Letters of John Winthrop, From His Embarkation for New England in 1630, With the Charter and Company of Massachusetts Bay, to His Death in 1649," by Robert C. Winthrop. The sons of the earliest Massachusetts sires take an equal pleasure and pride in writing their memoirs and in standing by the legitimate results of their noblest principles. The man of highest mark and service among the founders of Massachusetts was John Winthrop, its first governor. His son, of the same name, became, in his early manhood, a resident of Connecticut, of which colony he was the governor while his father held the office in Massachusetts. The descendants of the elder are now represented principally in the two States which represent those original colonies and in New York. A large collection of family papers, including a mass of original letters, was discovered a few years since in New London. They proved to be of just the sort and variety most prized in the preparation of memoirs.

This article focuses on the book "Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld," by Harry Barnard. This is an adequate biography of Altgeld, one of the most misunderstood and falsely vilified of American political leaders. This book meets this need in every way. Mr. Barnard has spent years in gathering his material, and with the aid of the papers and memories of the late George Schilling and others he has given us not only a well-written and sympathetic but also an authoritative biography.

Presents letters to the editors referencing articles and topics about politics and administration discussed in previous issues of The Nation. "The Sacred Right to Strike," which focused on the obstructive tactics being pursued by certain labor leaders during emergency in the U.S.; "No "Authorized" Biography," which focused on the review of the book "The Soong Sisters" by Nym Wales; and "So Long as It's Red," which focused on the articles published in The Nation.

The article focuses on the Ford family and their automobile manufacturing company. Henry Ford started the age of mass production and created an empire motivated by his goal to provide cars for the masses. By the end of the World War II, Ford left his company to his sons, Henry, Ben and Billy. According to the article, the brothers inherited an empire that was on the brink of collapse, with its share of U.S. automobile sales dropping from 40 percent in 1930 to 21 percent in the first postwar year of car production.

The article looks at the state of U.S. literature and book publishing in the U.S. in 1951. The strong sales of nonfiction and the royalties from reprints and other sidelines helped publishers publish more than 11,000 titles. The nonfiction and fiction bestsellers include Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us" and Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny."

The article offers updates on the cultural activities in the U.S. in 1965. It outlines the schedule of the television programs aired in various networks in the country, as well as the theatrical productions that are set to be played in different theaters. It also mentions the motion pictures, music releases, as well as the as the best selling non-fiction and fiction books in the country.

This article presents information about the book "The Man Behind Roosevelt," by Lela Stiles. Any good American biography is likely to be a bit of American history--a view of the portion of the American scene within the subject's dates. The way of life, the locale, customary forms of recreation, the social patterns inherited and made--striking personalities encountered, all these, as the setting for the life and work of the subject of a biography, combine to add to the historical knowledge and general appreciation of the period in which he lived.

The career of writer John Dos Passos might well be the subject of one of the biographies which form a segment of the U.S. He was born in the middle of the U.S. in 1896 just as finance capitalism was beginning to hit its stride across the laud of opportunity. His grandfather had been a Portuguese immigrant to the New World, a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father a drummer boy in the Civil War, which gave the country to the northern industrialists and increased the reservoir of free labor by several million blacks. By the time he was born his father was a corporation lawyer in a land of corporations whose quiet golden voice out-weighed the silver tongue of singer Bryan Adams at least sixteen to one. His mother stemmed from the stock of Maryland.

The article presents social updates of the world, as of January 5, 1899. The biography of economist Justin S. Morrill will, if it come to be written, embrace a large part of the political and especially of the financial history of the United States during the last forty-five-years. In another update, almost the first full account of the siege and battles of Santiago, Chile, from the Spanish point of view is to be found in a book "Combates y Capitulacion de Santiago de Cuba," published in Madrid, Spain, by a lieutenant in the Spanish navy, Don José Müller y Tejeiro.

Focuses on the socio-political updates related to the U.S. Information on coal code that represent a compromise on nearly every important detail except the insistence on genuine collective bargaining; Reports that wages are so low, the hours so long, that they hold out little substantial hope of additional employment; Abandonment of the plan to have wages which are already higher than the minimum increased; Discussion on the policy of independent and aggressive trade unionism; Importance of Austro-German conflict; Lynching of three Negroes near Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Publication of a biography of Andrew W. Mellon, by Harvey O'Connor.

The article offers information on the cultural industries in the U.S. The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Inc., the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) and the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) Inc. present its television programs including "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour." It mentions the release of the film "The Fireman's Ball," directed by Milos Forman. A list of best selling nonfiction books is also presented including "Instant Replay," by Jerry Kramer and "The Joys of Yiddish," by Leo Rosten.

The article presents the biography and works of Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco, the only living English woman of letters who has signally succeeded both as a writer of biography and of essays. Evelyn was born about 1860, her father being Henry Carrington, Dean of Booking, Braintree, Massachusetts, and her mother, Juanita, daughter of Captain Haseldene Lyall of the Royal Navy. It was in 1886 that she issued her first mature book, "Essays in the Study of FolkSongs," a model of the way in which a vast store of various information can be presented with unfailing vivacity. Evelyn speaks as a specialist, but with so much charm that she can hardly fail to attract any cultivated reader. Her book, "The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870," printed in 1894, is a popular account of the unification of Italy, and it is still the best short history of the period.

Presents several letters to the editor. Peace note of the U.S. President; Democratic control of the war-making power; Invitation to write a memoir.

The article presents several television programs, plays and books in the U.S. These include the National Football League Championship Game at CBS News Inc. and the play "The School for Scandal," starring Rosemary Harris and Ellis Rabb. The book "Satori in Paris," by Jack Kerouac is also noted in the article.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comments on the memoirs of Mme De Riedesel on the case of Captain Fanton, a Royalist absentee living in England; comments on the silver speculation in the United States; describes about scientific indexing.

The article presents information about the book "Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and Alice Oliphant, His Wife," by Margaret Oliphant W. Oliphant. A specimen more curious than this biography sets before people is probably not to be found in the whole psychological museum. Oliphant is ordered to the Brocton community for his period of probation. After probation, Oliphant is sent back to work in the world at his ordinary employment, though for the holy objects of the Community. He goes to New York to promote a commercial company, and to France as the war correspondent of the London Times.

The article presents information related to several issues. There is one important phase of the Dawes plan which has been overlooked. The U.S., by virtue of the Knox Resolution and the Treaty of Berlin, is awaiting payment by Germany of the awards of the Mixed Claims Commission now sitting in Washington. Perhaps the best historical biography of the American year is Robert McElroy's life of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. therefore, it was an official life. McElroy has written without restraint, as a teacher and a man of letters ought to. That freedom undoubtedly gives to the work much of its spontaneity and interest and is in marked contrast to some recent biographies which have been written to order, the biographer being employed at so much a month, or so much for the job.

Presents the profile of a U.S.-based author Chester Seltzer who wrote under the pseudonym of Amado Muro. Information on works undertaken by Seltzer to earn his living; Details of different newspapers and magazines with which Seltzer was associated; Views of Seltzer on war.

The article offers information on various entertainment events in the U.S. It states that the television program "Net Playhouse" is set to be aired at Net Channel on June 5, 1969. Meanwhile, the play "The Front Page" features casts including Robert Ryan and Bert Convy. Furthermore, the film "The Round Up and the Red and the White" is directed by Miklos Jancso.

The article features several television programs, theatrical productions, motion pictures and best sellers in the U.S. in 1969. It states that former U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer has hosted the television program "The Japanese" that will be aired at CBS Television Network. Meanwhile, the theatrical play "Play It Again, Sam" is starred by Woody Allen. Furthermore, the film "Goodbye, Columbus," is directed by Larry Peerce and starred by Ali MacGraw.

The article features entertainment events in the U.S. including television shows, theatrical productions and best sellers. The list of the best seller fiction and nonfiction books such as "The Salzburg Connection," and "The Joys of Yiddish" is presented. The life of composer Franz Gruber which is played by James Mason and narrated by Kirk Douglas titled "The Legend of Silent Night." Neil Simon's musical called "Promises, Promises" which is described as slick, amiable and derivative is mentioned.

This article presents information on the book "Charles Bulfinch, Architect and Citizen," by Charles A. Place. This biography on the life of Charles Bulfinch bridged a great historical chasm. Educated in Boston during the Revolution, he knew it as a small colonial port city whose architecture was dominantly Colonial English; by the time of his death, in 1844, American architecture had set out on its own eclectic course, American life had begun to develop those special characteristics that is the modern America. Place's book gives a new opportunity to evaluate the part which Bulfinch played in this change, and some little insight into the reaction those changes produced in him. In addition it is indispensable to anyone interested in the origins of American taste.