The Historian as Detective - ed. Robin Winks - 1968 Hardcover, DJ Harper and Row

Description: The Historian as Detective Essays on Evidence edited by Robin W. Winks Harper and Row, 1968, Library of Congress Catalog No. 67-22522, Hardcover, dust jacket, VG/VG condition, no marks, no underlining, no highlighting, 543 pages. Essays by noted historians of the past and present, on the problems of investigation, offer a series of intriguing case studies in the relationship between historical research and detective fiction Was Richard II the hysteric that Shakespeare and tradition say he was? Was Stonehenge built for worship and sacrifice, or as an astronomical computer? Were Homer's descriptions of the seas and landfalls of Ulysses' journey wholly fanciful? These cases and two dozen more, ranging from the identity-crisis of Mar-in Luther to the murder of John F. Kennedy, are included in this fascinating collection of historical detection classics. Writers like Jacques Barzun, Richard D. Altick, Robin G. Collingwood, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Erik Erikson, C. Vann Woodward and David Donald, among others, tell how scholars penetrate rumors, forgeries, false accounts and misleading clues to unravel old mysteries. Often the story is told by the historian who cracked the case. Robin W. Winks, historian and suspense-novel connoisseur, has keyed his introduction and notes to similar problems of investigation found in fiction, for, he writes, the historian and the detective have much in common as they confront the methods and dangers of dealing with evidence. His enjoyable essay on the adventure of being a historian will be of special value to the student and the teacher. This book, the editor says, was compiled for fun. For its readers, the fun will be catching. ABOUT THE EDITOR Robin W. Winks, a professor of history at Yale University, is the author of several books, among them Canada and the United States: The Civil War Years; A History of Malaysia; The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth; and the forthcoming Past-masters: Some Essays on American Historians, which he edited with Marcus Cunliffe. He lives in New Haven with his wife and two children. Jacket design by Guy Fleming CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. VIGILANTE JUSTICE? 1. What Is Evidence? The Relativist View—"Everyman His Own Historian," by Carl L. Becker 2. On Believing What One Reads: The Dangers of Popular Revisionism—from American Attitudes Toward History, by C. Vann Woodward 3. Who Killed John Doe? The Problem of Testimony—from The Idea of History, by Robin G. Collingwood 4. Tracer of Missing Persons: Biographer and Autobiographer —from An Autobiography, by Theodore Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, by Henry F. Pringle PART II. HABEAS CORPUS 5. The Secret of the Ebony Cabinet: A Search for "Lost" Manuscripts—from the Preface to Boswell's London Journal (1762-1763), by Christopher Morley 6. The Mystery of Marie Roget, and Other Diversions: Another Search for Lost Manuscripts—from The Scholar Adventurers, by Richard D. Altick 7. The Case of the Man in Love: Forgery, Impure and Simple —"The Minor Collection: A Criticism," by Paul M. Angle 8. The Case of the Men Who Weren't There: Problems of Local Pride—"The Mystery of the Horn Papers," by Arthur Pierce Middleton and Douglass Adair PART III. THE ADVERSARY METHOD 9. The Case of the Eyewitnesses: "A lie is a lie, even in Latin" —from Aspects of the Study of Roman History, by Thomas Spencer Jerome 10. The Case of the Cheating Documents: False Authority and the Problem of Surmise—from The Gateway to History, by Allan Nevins 11. A Medley of Mysteries: A Number of Dogs That Didn't Bark—from The Modern Researcher, by Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff 12. The Case of the Mysterious Diary: Evidence Over Time—"Has the Mystery of 'A Public Man' Been Solved?," by Roy N. Lokken, and "A Rejoinder," by Frank Maloy Anderson 13. The Case of the Harried Scholars: Of the World That Is Too Much with Us—from The Dead Sea Scrolls, by Millar Burrows PART IV. THE CASE METHOD 14. The Case of the Needless Death: Reconstructing the Scene —"The Death of Captain Cook," by J. C. Beaglehole 15. The Private Eye: Going Over the Ground—from Ulysses Found, by Ernie Bradford, and Testaments of Time, by Leo Deuel 16. The Case of the Missing Telegrams: Suppressing Evidence —"The Missing Telegrams and the Jameson Raid," by C. M. Woodhouse 17. The Case of the Very Minor Matter: Inadvertent Error—"An Alleged Hysterical Outburst of Richard II," by L. C. Hector 18. The Case of the Feigning Man: Medical-Psychological Evidence—from Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, by David Donald PART V. ALLIES 19. The Case of the Grassy Knoll: The Romance of Conspiracy —"The Assassins," by John Kaplan 20. The Roman Coin Mystery: The Romance of Objects—from Paths to the Ancient Past, by Tom B. Jones 21. The Case of the Silent Witnesses: The Romance of Gadgetry —from Stonehenge Decoded, by Gerald S. Hawkins and John B. White 22. The Case of the Fit in the Choir: The Application of Psychoanalysis—from Young Man Luther, by Erik H. Erikson PART VI. VERDICTS 23. The Strange Nature of Pure Joy: The Historian's Pleasure Principle—"The Psychiatrist, the Historian, and General Clinton," by William B. Wilcox 24. The Pleasures of Doubt: Re-enacting the Crime—"The Limits of Historical Knowledge," by Robin G. Collingwood 25. The Problem of Hope: Contemporary History—"On the Inscrutability of History," by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 26. Conclusion—A Letter to Groucho Marx, by Russell Baker Bibliography nthdegree books

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