After suffering through years of history lessons about the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop’s role in shaping his “city upon a hill,” one would think that (yet another) novel ...
SPIRIT LAKE (957 pp.)—MacKin/ay Kantor—World ($6.95). Not altogether inaccurately, MacKinlay Kantor’s 34th book is billed as a “gigantic novel of the American frontier.” Wordier even than ...
THE POLITICOS—Matthew Josephson— Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). When they drew up the Constitution, the Founding Fathers carefully designated the various government offices. But they neglected to say how ...