1098 The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield (read 5 Dec 1970) (Pulitzer History prize in 1953) (Bancroft Prize in 1953) The title of this book is misleading. It is really a well-written study of American history from the War of 1812 to the start of Andrew Jackson's Administration on March 4, 1829. And it is a sheer delight. Full of much I sort of knew, yet I found it fresh and enjoyable. It is a period rather neglected, but the book makes it all seem interesting and important. One certainly gets vivid pictures of Monroe, J.Q. Adams, and others. It shows the transformation from Jeffersonian democracy to Jacksonian. I shall have to read more in the field, and now seems a good time to read Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson. I liked this account of Daniel Webster before the Supreme Court: "At the end of his speech in the Dartmouth College case he had paused, apparently groping for the words that, with a characteristic economy, he had already used in a lower court. 'It is, Sir,' he faltered out at last,' as I have said, 'a small College. And yet, there are those who love it.' His voice choked with sobs, the audience reached for its handkerchiefs; and even Chief Justice Marshall began to cry." ( )