Clinton Rossiter

LAWRENCE HENRY GIPSON. The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775. Pp. xiv, 287. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1954.

business of the American people as best it could.&dquo; The reader of this volume will be struck by the author’s solid scholarship, his breadth of understanding, his delightful organization and style, and the hard core of common sense that preserves the balance of the study. The chapters will add to the understanding of the scholar as well as of the layman. In the twenty-five-page chapter on &dquo;The Theory and Practice of Rotation,&dquo; for example, one finds not only a clear explanation of the pressures that resulted in the &dquo;spoils system&dquo; of Jackson’s time, but a more unusual description of the ebbs and flows of public sentiment and of the way in which the successive political leaders reacted to popular pressures. The author’s narrative is liberally sprinkled with quotations from both manuscript and contemporary periodical sources. It is this wealth of unusual source material that may appeal most to the general reader. No serious student of the first seventy years of our nation’s history will ever wish to overlook these three volumes. To the

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And people talk about the powers of a President, all the powers that A Chief Executive has, and what he can do. Let me tell you something-from experience! The President may have a great many powers given to him in the Constitution, and may have powers under certain laws which are given to him by the Congress of the United States; but the principal power that the President has is to bring people in and try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion. Thats what I spend most of my time doing. Thats what the powers of the President amount to.1