Henry Steele Commager

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  1. English Traits: One Hundred Years Later

    On a leave of absence from Columbia University, HENRY STEELE COMMAGERduring the past year was the Visiting Professor of American History at Cambridge University, and during his months abroad he found himself comparing the English Traits described by Emerson with those of John Bull in the twentieth century. Dr. Commager collaborated with Samuel Eliot Morison in writing The Growth of the American Republic, and is the editor of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and The Rise of the American Nation.