TY - JOUR
AU - Graham, Adams
AB - 326 Reviews of Books THE UNCERTAIN GIANT: 1921-1941. AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY BETWEEN THE WARS. By Selig Adler. [American Diplomatic History Series.] (New York: Macmillan Company. 1965. Pp. xi, 34 0 . $ 6 .95.) RESTING on massive study, this second volume in a new series for undergraduate and graduate students of American diplomatic history shows its distinguished author's close knowledge of the era. The author has not merely a forty-six-page bibliography at the end of the volume; the freshness of the quotations in the text and the ease with which he generalizes are sure signs that he has read his titles. Organization is largely chronological, except for a chapter on Latin America. In- terpretations are balanced, to use an overworked word; they show a willingness to take the judgments to the information, rather than vice versa. The author de- serves congratulation for a fine piece of work. Anyone venturing to interpret a large subject opens himself to occasional lapses or debatable interpretations, and there are a few in this able volume. The portrait of Secretary of State Kellogg is unfair and in parts inaccurate; the credit- ing of Professor James T. Shotwell as a convert to the ideas of 
TI - Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic: Moderation, Division, and Disruption in the Presidential Election of 1928. By Vaughn Davis Bornet. (Washington, D. C.: Spartan Books. 1964. Pp. xiii, 376. $6.95.)
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/72.1.326-a
DA - 1966-10-01
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SP - 326
EP - 327
VL - 72
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