The University Bookman

 

Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2008)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note: The Lives of Others

The State of Biography
by Carl Rollyson
From the Nightstand of a Bookman . . .
by Bruce Frohnen
An Architect for all Purposes
a review by Daniel McCarthy
Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect’s Four Quests: Medieval, Modernist, American, Ecumenical by Douglass Shand-Tucci. University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst), 624 pp., $49.95 cloth, 2005
The Man Who Built Ireland
a review by David Campion
Kevin O’Higgins: Builder of the Irish State by John P. McCarthy. Irish Academic Press (Portland, Ore.), xvi/312 pp., $35.00 cloth, 2006
Sketches of Painterly Lives
by James Panero
The Art of the Art Biography
Error Has No Rights
a review by John C. Pinheiro
Orestes Brownson: American Religious Weathervane by Patrick W. Carey. Wm. B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, Mich.), 448 pp., $29.00 paper, 2004
The Presence of a Teacher
a review by Michael Henry
A Path Remembered: The Lives of Gerhart and Lucie Niemeyer by Paul V. Niemeyer. ISI Books (Wilmington, Del.), 402 pp., $40.00 cloth, 2006
The Witness Revisited
by Joseph S. Salemi
Whittaker Chambers and American Conservatism
To Serve with Honor
a review by Thierry Giaccardi
Maurras, Le Chaos et l’Ordre by Stéphane Giocanti. Flammarion (Paris), 575 pp., $39.46 paper, 2006
Chicago and a New Schema for the Liberal Arts
a review by Bryan Berry
Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America by Donald N. Levine. University of Chicago Press (Chicago), 299 pp., $39.00 cloth, 2006; $19.00 paper, 2007
A University Lecture
a review by Christopher O. Blum
The Regensburg Lecture by James V. Schall, S.J. St. Augustine’s Press (South Bend, Ind.), 174 pp., $20 cloth, 2007
A Portrait of the Artist as an Exile: Dante Alighieri
a review by James E. Person Jr.
Dante: The Poet, The Political Thinker, The Man by Barbara Reynolds. Shoemaker & Hoard (Emeryville, Calif.), 466 pp., $35.00 cloth, 2006
The Truth about Roy Campbell
by Russell Kirk
An excerpt from The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict (Wm. B. Eerdmans; Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1995)
Books in Little
a review by The Editors
Acknowledgements
by The Editors
 

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