De Voto
Americannoun
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Editor De Voto, discounting some of Gilpin's "deuces-wild science," believes that "Gilpin's reading of the American experience is essentially sound" and observes that many of the predictions about the U.S. have been fulfilled.
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Managing and preserving it is, as Historian Bernard De Voto wrote three decades ago, the only Government responsibility besides atomic energy in which a mistake made today cannot be corrected tomorrow.
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From Francis Parkman to Bernard De Voto, scholars have unearthed the routes and reminiscences of the "mountain men" in the 19th century, devoting volumes to their exploits.
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Last week Bernard De Voto, Harper's Easy Chair editor, dug this early geopolitician out of the dusty stacks of U.S. history, showed him to be the author of some amazingly prophetic geopolitical ideas.
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Announcement by Bernard De Voto; pref., introd., emendations and corrections by Robert S. Forsythe. © on new material; 11Apr30; A6-21794.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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