 Ibid. 61. prise, and the means to its success. As a writer his merits are really great — clearness, force, vividness, picturesque and dramatic energy, a diction racy and crisp. He had the faults of an impulsive, irascible, egotistic, and imaginative...  Americana; the Literature of American History - Síða 127eftir Milton Waldman - 1925 - 271 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
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