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Elmer H. Davis • 347 Items / 15 Books, 172 Articles, 159 Reviews
Two Minutes Till Midnight (1955)
by Elmer H. Davis
Getting Later by the Minute
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    The Nearness of Midnight (Review)
    Thomas K. Finletter
    Two Minutes Till Midnight, by Elmer H. Davis
    1. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    The New Republic, February 21, 1955, pp. 26-27
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    The Time Is Now (Review)
    Gilbert Seldes
    Two Minutes Till Midnight, by Elmer H. Davis
    1. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    The Saturday Review, February 26, 1955, p. 13
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    Books in Brief (3 Reviews)
    The Revelations of Dr. Modesto, by Alan Harrington
    1. The Revelations of Dr. Modesto by Alan Harrington
    2. U.S. Military Doctrine: A Study and Appraisal by Dale O. Smith
    3. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    The Nation, December 3, 1955, p. 484
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (9 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    2. Civilization and Foreign Policy by Louis J. Halle
    3. The Noble Savage by Lawrence Hanson and Elisabeth Hanson
    4. Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A by Richard Stoddard Aldrich
    5. Flamingo Feather by Laurens van der Post
    6. Fellow Passenger by Geoffrey Household
    7. All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir
    8. Homecoming by Jiro Osaragi
    9. The Vagabond by Colette
    The Atlantic Monthly, March 1955, pp. 78-85
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    The New Books (10 Reviews)
    Bruce Bliven, Jr.
    Ghosts from Germany---
    1. The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek
    2. Fragebogen by Ernst von Salomon
    3. Vorkuta by Joseph Scholmer
    4. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    5. Sincerely, Willis Wayde by John P. Marquand
    6. Sense of Humour by Stephen Potter
    7. Conquest by Man by Paul Herrmann
    8. The Noble Savage by Lawrence Hanson and Elisabeth Hanson
    9. This Is Sylvia by Sandy Wilson
    10. My Zoo Family by Helen Martini
    The Harpers Monthly, March 1955, pp. 88-95
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    Recent Books on International Relations (13 Reviews)
    Henry L. Roberts
    General: Political, Military and Legal
    1. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    2. Common Sense and World Affairs by Dorothy Fosdick
    3. American Strategy in the Atomic Age by George C. Reinhardt
    4. Political Warfare by John Scott
    5. Admiral Ambassador to Russia by William H. Standley and Arthur A. Ageton
    6. Marxism: Past and Present by R.N. Carew Hunt
    7. The Communist Theory of Law by Hans Kelsen
    8. War of Wits by Ladislas Farago
    9. Spies at Work by Ronald Seth
    10. Great Britain and the United States by H.C. Allen
    11. UN: The First Ten Years by Clark M. Eichelberger
    12. Federalism: Mature and Emergent by Arthur W. Macmahon
    13. Revolution of the Lonely by P.J. Bouman
    Foreign Affairs, July 1955, pp. 689-690
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    Brief Comments (18 Reviews)
    Nineteen outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. Politics in America by D.W. Brogan
    2. Freedom Limited by Marten ten Hoor
    3. The Fifth Amendment Today by Erwin N. Griswold
    4. Two Minutes Till Midnight by Elmer H. Davis
    5. Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell
    6. The Human Brain by John E. Pfeiffer
    7. The Prevalence of People by Marston Bates
    8. Africa Today by C. Grove Haines
    9. The Indian and the Horse by Frank Gilbert Roe
    10. The Passenger Pigeon by A.W. Schorger
    11. A Train of Powder by Rebecca West
    12. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams
    13. The Intelligent Heart by Harry T. Moore
    14. The Solitary Singer by Gay Wilson Allen
    15. Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A by Richard Stoddard Aldrich
    16. The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden
    17. The Black Prince, and Other Stories by Shirley Ann Grau
    18. The Cornerstone by Zoe Oldenbourg
    The American Scholar, Summer 1955, pp. 369-377