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:::Oh, goodness, I didn't want to get into the let's-boost-Harding/let's-bash-Harding thing. I was just thinking we could use something or other about what the man's personality was like. Taylor writing in 1931 would have been close enough to have been in the milieu and distant enough to have some objectivity. In case it isn't clear I'd like to put this in the article, but I wanted to get some talk about it first. I know that Frederick Lewis Allen "Only Yesterday" is famous and frequently referred to (and a very good read) but I don't know Allen's own politics. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:46, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
:::Oh, goodness, I didn't want to get into the let's-boost-Harding/let's-bash-Harding thing. I was just thinking we could use something or other about what the man's personality was like. Taylor writing in 1931 would have been close enough to have been in the milieu and distant enough to have some objectivity. In case it isn't clear I'd like to put this in the article, but I wanted to get some talk about it first. I know that Frederick Lewis Allen "Only Yesterday" is famous and frequently referred to (and a very good read) but I don't know Allen's own politics. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:46, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
:::Hmmm.... "Frederick Lewis Allen is best known as the sharp-eyed editor of Harper's magazine. Through Harper's--and the several books and articles he wrote--Allen both chronicled and shaped American journalism in the twentieth century.... Sam Riley, in an article for Dictionary of Literary Biography, suggested, "Allen might be described as a New England, Ivy League gentleman editor." (Contemporary Authors Online) Doesn't sound grotesquely liberal or conservative to me... [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:50, 28 March 2007 (EDT)
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