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Review: Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist (Cambridge, Mass., 2005), Andre Wakefield
Review: Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist (Cambridge, Mass., 2005), Andre Wakefield
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Reviewed work: Roger Hahn. Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Determined Scientist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+310. $35.
Proving Ground: Richard Harding Davis In The American West, Char Miller
Proving Ground: Richard Harding Davis In The American West, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
The idea of Texas staggered Richard Harding Davis. That, in any event, is how the youthful managing editor of Harper's Weekly portrayed his response to the Lone Star State after boarding a train in New York City and heading south in January 1892 for a three-month tour of Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. At twenty-eight, already a much-heralded journalist for his investigative reports on Philadelphia's underworld, and his gripping accounts of the devastating Johnstown Flood of 1889, Davis had been editing Harper's tor a year and was eager for a change of pace. A western jaunt, he reasoned, would present a …