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BOOK NOTES Growth of the American Economy to 1860. Edited by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1968. Pp. iv, 251. $7.95.); American Economic Growth Since 1860. Edited by William Greenleaf. (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1968. Pp. iv, 391. $7.95.). This two-volume addition to the series "Documentary History of the United States" (Richard B. Morris, general editor), is the best collection of primary source materials now avaüable for survey courses in United States economic history. Drawn from official and private sources and arranged chronologically, the collections illustrate major factors and turning points in American economic growth. The introductions and editorial headnotes are particularly useful. North and Thomas provide an analytical framework by distinguishing between "extensive" growth (in land, labor, and capital) and "intensive" growth (per capita income), while Greenleaf ascribes to the Civü War the major impetus for industrialization in America. A PictorialHistory of the Civil War Years. By Paul M. Angle. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Pp. 242. $6.95.) Inferior to David Donald's Divided We Fought, but one of the better picture books to emerge in recent years, this work reflects Dr. Angle's meticulous scholarship . Included is a heretofore unpublished photograph of the corpse of Turner Ashby. Struggle for VicL·burg. By the Staff of Civil War Times Illustrated. (Harrisburg, Pa.: Historical Times, Inc., 1967. Pp. 66. $4.95.) A reprint, in hard cover, of the July, 1967, issue of CWTI, the popularly written text benefits from a profusion of maps and iUustrations. Anatomy of an Assassination. By John Cottrell. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1966. Pp. 260. $5.95.) Cottrell's undocumented study, based solely on printed sources, contains little not found in better form in earlier, more reliable works. The author's analyses of the behavior of Stanton and Lafayette Baker are the book's highlights. The South Carolinians: Colonel Asbury Cowards Memoirs. Edited by Natalie J. Bond and Osmun L. Coward. (New York: Vantage Press, 1968. Pp. 188. $3.95.) Written and published years after the war, these recollections of an officer in the Army of Northern Virginia are restrictively revealing. The absence of an index renders them less useful. 84 Mount Up. By JuHa Davis. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. Pp. 199. $3.75.) Miss Davis has used the previously unpublished memoirs of Maj. E. A. H. McDonald , 1 1th Virginia Cavalry, as the base for an undocumented story of war. More scholarly trappings would have made this volume of greater value to historians and students. Gattant Men: Stories of American Adventure. By Everett M. Dirksen and H. Paul Jeffers. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. Pp. 122. $3.95.) With aU due reverence for the senior senator from IUinois, the fourteen sketches here (two are of Civil War figures) are more noteworthy for who wrote them than for what data they contain. Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Edited by Frank Freidel. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967. Pp. x, vii, 1,233. $20.00.) "The numerous pamphlets appearing in the North during the Civil War," Frank Freidel writes, "serve as windows through which a latter generation can glimpse the intense inner debates that stirred the area while the armies were contending on the battlefields." This handsome two-volume set contains the complete texts of fifty-two of the most scarce and stimulating treatises that appeared in the North during the war years. Authors range from James RusseU LoweU to Clement VaUandigham . The editor's notes and a full index add to the value of an exceptionaUy rich compüation. Terry's Texas Rangers. By L. B. Giles. (Austin, Tex.: The Pemberton Press, 1967. Pp. [vi], 105, [13]. $7.50.) This reprint of an exceedingly rare 1911 memoir contains a brief introduction, iUustrations and long-needed index. Yet Giles' recoUections of service in the 8th Texas Cavalry remain inferior to the reminiscences of his compatriot, William A. Fletcher. He Made Lincoln Laugh: The Story of Dan Rice. By Don Carle Gillette. (New York: Exposition Press, 1967. Pp. 170. $5.00.) GiUette's shaUow biography of one of Lincoln...

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