The "Dictionary of American Biography": A Partisan, Sectional, Political Publication [with] The "Dictionary of American Biography": A Protest Continued Against the Editorial Methods of its Board of Editors and its Committee of Management

Rowland, Dunbar

Edité par Published by the author, Jackson, Mississippi, 1932

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In these two self-published pamphlets, the eminent Mississippi historian and archivist, Dunbar Rowland, exchanges letters with two Dictionary of American Biography editors over their sectarian, editorial policies concerning Rowland's own submissions and their political partisanship. Rowland concludes that the "Dictionary of American Biography is in charge of a school of sectional and prejudiced historians, and is a partisan, political publication" (p. [2], 1931). In the first of the two pamphlets, Rowland reprints his correspondence with DAB editor Dr. Allen Johnson concerning minor squabbles over Rowland's submissions and his opposition to the selection of a Northerner, Professor Nathaniel W. Stephenson, to write the sketch of Jefferson Davis who Stephenson previously maligned in an article. As the editor/publisher of a ten-volume series on Davis entitled Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, His Letters, Papers and Speeches, Rowland believed Stephenson unfit for the job. Also included is a letter to DAB benefactor Adolph Ochs on Rowland's dissatisfaction followed by Ochs' response. The second pamphlet continues Rowland's protest, this time with Johnson's successor, Dr. Dumas Malone, over the editorial decisions made on Rowland's sketch of Judge Robert Andrews Hill. Rowland demands the return of his previous, unpublished contributions and the men spend multiple letters discussing who should keep a $52 check offered to Rowland as compensation (the check is ultimately torn up). Plain, stapled wrappers, [16] p.; [20] p. Corners bumped, but both pamphlets in near fine condition.

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• Titre: The "Dictionary of American Biography": A Partisan, Sectional, Political Publication [with] The "Dictionary of American Biography": A Protest Continued Against the Editorial Methods of its Board of Editors and its Committee of Management
• Éditeur: Published by the author, Jackson, Mississippi
• Date de parution: 1932
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Appalachia & the South
  • Americana