Charles Sumner
David Herbert Donald / Author Da Capo Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 9
A one-volume edition of Donald's two books on 19th-century radical reformer Donald. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 07/29/1996
Genre: Nonfiction
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