President and Professor

BOOKS IN REVIEW The President and the Professor JAMES BURNHAM

Allan Nevins, Professor of American History at Columbia University, and author of many a book wi-thin the field of his competence, is a man intimately acquainted with the works and deeds of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, Webster, Calhoun, Lincoln, et al. In his successful pursuit of the sometimes elusive Clio, he has undoubtedly read enough memoirs to sink a freighter. It was therefore a de- cision of much propriety that led the editor of oui- principal book-screener to assign to Professor Nevins the job of examining Year of Decisions