Robert K. Murray

Paul T. David. Party Strength in the United States, 1872-1970. Pp. xi, 310. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1972.

torian hitherto mainly noted for his studies of the anti-Japanese campaign on the West Coast and of the Japanese evacuation of 1942, succeeds admirably in getting to the reality of the Bonus March-its beginnings in several parts of the country, its obscure and generally inept leadership, and its essentially peaceful spirit. He is careful to establish the ways in which the sit-ins came to get on the nerves of the administration during two long months of depression summer. He shows that the district