The Bobbs-Merril Company

PREFACEA book on the topic of "distributive justice" might plausibly be expected to be a work of passion: the issue is one of those high-energy fuels of controversy capable of generating a great deal of heat. One way of looking at the problem is from the perspective of the discontented poor man,...

CHAPTER I "Disaster Hath Ruined Us" 1Robert J. Walker, destined maker of one president^ and close adviser of three others, sat in his law office at Natchez thinking.It was an old custom of his, derived from undergraduate days at the University of Pennsylvania. With feet up on a desk, he frequently...

For his third exciting növel, Hamilton Cochran has dramatized one of the most significant and romantic periods of history on both sides of the Atlantic: the latter part of the seventeenth century. Under the grim rule of the Puritans, the people of colonial New England seethe with dissatisfaction...