The historian as detective, essays on evidence. / Robin W. Winks, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winks, Robin W., compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Research.

History.

History--Errors, inventions, etc.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gum, Abe (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gum, Lillian (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 543 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York ; Evanston ; London : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1969]

Contents:

What is evidence? The relativist view / Carl L. Becker

On believing what one reads: the dangers of popular revisionism / C. Vann Woodward

Who killed John Doe? The problem of testimony / Robin G. Collingwood

Tracer of missing persons: biographer and autobiographer / Henry F. Pringle

The secret of the ebony cabinet: a search for "lost" manuscripts / Christopher Morley

The mystery of Marie Roget, and other diversions: another search for lost manuscripts / Richard D. Altick

The case of the man in love: forgery, impure and simple / Paul M. Angle

The case of the men who weren't there: problems of local pride / Arthur Pierce Middleton and Douglass Adair

The case of the eyewitnesses: "a lie is a lie, even in Latin" / Thomas Spencer Jerome

The case of the cheating documents: false authority and the problem of surmise / Allan Nevins

A medley of mysteries: a number of dogs that didn't bark / Joseph Barzun and Henry F. Graff

The case of the mysterious diary: evidence over time / Roy N. Lokken and Frank Maloy Anderson

The case of the harried scholars: of the world that is too much with us / Millar Burrows

The case of the needless death: reconstructing the scene / J.C. Beaglehole

The private eye: going over the ground / Ernle Bradford and Leo Deuel

The case of the missing telegrams: suppressing evidence / C.M. Woodhouse

The case of the very minor matter: inadvertent error / L.C. Hector

The case of the feigning man: medical-psychological evidence / David Donald

The case of the grassy knoll: the romance of conspiracy / John Kaplan

The Roman coin mystery: the romance of objects / Tom B. Jones

The case of the silent witnesses: the romance of gadgetry / Gerald S. Hawkins and John B. White

The case of the fit in the choir : the application of psychoanalysis / Erik H. Erikson

The strange nature of pure joy: the historian's pleasure principle / William B. Willcox

The pleasures of doubt: re-enacting the crime / Robin G. Collingwood

The problem of hope: contemporary history / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Conclusion: a letter to Groucho Marx / Russell Baker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has black-bordered bookplate "In Memory of Abe and Lillian Gum" on front pastedown.

OCLC:

9864