The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

PROFESSOR of American History at Columbia University, author of ten volumes of history and biography, editor of famous Letters and Diaries, Allan Nevins lives with one foot in the past, the other in the present. His Grover Cleveland — A Study in Courage was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1932, and, although a recent ruling prevents the repetition of such an honor, discriminating readers will recognize that his new volume is of the same high level.