The University Bookman

Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2008)

Contents

Editor’s Note: Look Homeward

Essay 29 November 2008

What About Booth?
by Jeremy Beer

Newton Booth Tarkington, Neglected Hoosier

Essay 29 November 2008

On Brooklyn’s Side
by Gerald J. Russello

Essay 29 November 2008

Robert Traver: Anatomy of a Fisherman
by Jason Peters

Essay 29 November 2008

The ‘Time’ of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
by Katherine Dalton

Review 29 November 2008

Across the Great Divide
a review by Jesse Walker

Say It One Time for the Broken Hearted: Country Soul in the American South By Barney Hoskyns. Bloomsbury (London) 256 pp., $17.24 paper, second edition, 1998

Essay 30 November 2008

Stealing Dorothy
by Caleb Stegall

‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ and My Fortunate Home

Review 30 November 2008

Northwest Passages
a review by Jeffrey Cain

The Canoe and the Saddle By Theodore Winthrop Edited By Paul J. Lindholt University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln) 240 pp., $13.95 paper, 2006

Review 30 November 2008

Dire Straits
a review by Stephen Lewandowski

Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies by Ginger Strand. Simon & Schuster (New York) 303 pp., $25.00 cloth, 2008

Review 30 November 2008

Show Me a Statesman
a review by Daniel McCarthy

Jim Reed, Senatorial Immortal: A Biography By Lee Meriwether. Kessinger Publishing (Whitefish, Montana) 296 pp., $28.95 paper, 2007

Review 30 November 2008

Hill’s Country
a review by Frank Bryan

Contrary Country: A Chronicle of Vermont By Ralph Nading Hill. Rinehart & Company cloth, 1950

Essay 30 November 2008

On the Fixing of Our Gaze
by James V. Schall, S.J.

On Essays and Letters

Essay 30 November 2008

Donald Davidson and the South’s Conservatism
by Russell Kirk

From The Politics of Prudence

Review 30 November 2008

Books in Little
a review by The Editors