Literary Works - Book Reviews, etc.
Book Reviews
62 01 Book Reviews by Davis, General Information
02 1942 May 02, Moscow War Diary by Alexander Werth
03 1942, The Autobiography of Durable Sinner by Owen P. White
04 1942, Breathe The Air Again by Ward Moore
05 1942, Flora Shawn by Samuel Rogers
06 1942, Hughie Roddis by Gerald Savory
07 1942, Northern Nurse by Elliot Merrick
08 [1942], Spring Magic by D. E. Stevenson
09 1942, Sweet Genevieve by August Derleth
10 1942, Timber by Roderick L. Haig-Brown
11 1942, West With The Night by Beryl Markham
12 1942, Westward The Sun by Brigid Knight
13 [1942], Young Ames by Walter D. Edmonds
14 1944 Mar 04, How To Think About War and Peace by Mortimer J. Adler
15 1944 Mar 11, The Life and Death of Little Jo by Robert Bright
16 1944, Liberty Street by I. V. Morris
17 1944, Road To Tunis by David Rame
18 1948, Canada Moves North by Richard Finnie
19 1949 Jul 14, Cannon Hill by Mary Deasy
20 1949 Sep 24, The World in the Attic by Wright Morris
21 1950 Mar 11, Damned Children of Fortune by Richard Scowcroft
22 1950 May 13, Wheat Country by William B. Bracke
23 1952 Oct 29, This Place Called Kansas by Charles C. Howe
24 1952 Oct, The Strangers by William E. Wilson
25 1953 Apr 04, The Writer in America by Van Wyck Brooks
26 1953, The Buffalo Wallow by Charles Tenney Jackson
27 1954, The Adventurers by Ernest Haycox
28 1954, Bleeding Kansas by Alice Nichols
29 1954, God and My Country by MacKinlay Kantor
30 1954, The Newcomer by Clyde Brion Davis
31 1954, Why Not Survive? By Michael W. Straus
32 1961 Jun 04, The Bold Brahmins, New England's War Against Slavery; 1830-63
by Lawrence Lader
33 1961 Nov, Writers On The Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism by
Daniel Aaron
34 1963 Feb 17, The Duel For France, 1944 by Martin Blumenson
35 1963 Mar 31, The Battle of the Huertgen Forest by Charles B. MacDonald
36 1964 Dec, Hispanic Furniture by Grace Burr
37 1968 Mar 24, The Last Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh by Walter S. Ress
38 1970 Sep 27, The Wartime Journal of Charles A. Lindbergh by Charles A.
Lindbergh
39 1972 Aug 27, Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash
40 1972 Dec 17, For The President edited by Orville H. Bullitt
41 1973 Apr 29, Navigating The Rapids 1918-1971, From the Papers of Adolf A.
Berle, edited by Beatrice Bishop Berle and Travis Beal Jacobs
42 1973 May 20, An Untold Story by Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough
43 1973 Oct 12, Witness to History by Charles E. Bohlen
44 1973 Nov 11, The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson edited by Walter Johnson and
Carol Evans
45 1973 Dec 30, DeGaulle by Brian Crozier
46 1973, Lindbergh of Minnesota by Bruce L. Carson
47 1974 Sep 15, The Power Broker by Robert Moses
48 1976 Mar 28, The Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
49 1976 Apr 18, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois by John Bartlow Martin
50 1976, Lindbergh, A Biography by Leonard Mosley
51 1978 Mar 19, The Guggenheims by John H. Davis
52 1978 Apr 16, Stormy Weather: Cross Lights on the 1930s by J. C. Furnas
53 1978 Jun 18, Heiress: The Rich Life of Marjorie Merriweather Post by William
Wright
54 1978 Jul 02, Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
55 1978 Dec 25, Leadership by James MacGregor Burns
56 1979 Feb 18, Herbert Hoover by David Burner
57 1979 Apr 27, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur by William Manchester
58 1979 Apr 29, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
59 1979 Dec 16, A Dream of Greatness: The American People 1945-1963 by
Geoffrey Perrett
60 1980 Feb 03, 1929: America Before The Crash by Warren Sloat
61 1980 Feb, Gandhi: A Memoir by William L. Shirer
62 1981 Jul 26, Mornings On Horseback by David McCullough
63 1982 Apr 25, The Shaker Holy Land, A Community Portrait by Edward R.
Horgan
64 1983 Nov 13, In The Shadow Of FDR: From Harry Truman To Ronald Reagan by
William E. Leuchtenberg
65 1985 May 12, Harold Ickes Of The New Deal, His Private Life and Public Career
by Graham White and John Maze
66 1986 Mar 16, The Greatest Crusade: Roosevelt, Churchill, And The Naval Wars
by Richard Hough
67 1986 Nov 16, A Question of Sedition: The Federal Governments Investigation of
the Black Press During World War by Patrick S. Washburn
68 1986 Nov 16, The Tolerant Society, Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in
America by Lee C. Bollinger
69-70 1986, Truman: The Rise to Power by Richard Lawrence Miller
Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman
Truman by Roy Jenkins
71 1987 Jan 11, Eisenhower: At War by David Eisenhower
72 1987 Jul 12, Commander In Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants,
and Their War by Eric Larrabee
73 1988 Oct 23, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VIII: "Never Despair," 1945-1965 by
Martin Gilbert
Churchill, A Photographic Portrait by Martin Gilbert
74 1990, Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times Of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by
T. H. Watkins
75 1994, Dec 18, Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes by David
Robertson
76 1995, The End of Reform by Alan Brinkley
Book Reviews, n.d.
63 01 An American Bestiary by Mary Sayre Haverstock
02 Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning edited by
George Mitchell
03 Battles Lost and Won by Hanson W. Baldwin
04 The Beckoning Hill by James Playsted Wood
05 Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 by Geoffrey C. Ward
06 The Collapse Of The Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940
by William L. Shirer
07 Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy by Robert Dallek
08 From Private Vice To Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American
Society Since 1830 by James Reed
09 Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical and Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations
by John K. Lattimer
10 Man From Abilene: Dwight David Eisenhower, A Story of Leadership by Kevin
McCann
11 The Mediterranean, Sage of a Sea by Emil Ludwig
12 Mobilizing For Abundance by Robert R. Nathan
13 Mother Russia by Maurice Hindus
14 Night Drop: The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy by S. L. A. Marshall
15 The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer
16 The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942-1946 by
Henry A. Wallace, edited by John Morton Blum
Unpublished
Unpublished, Ideas for Novels, n.d.
17-18 General Ideas
19 Fiction Material
20 All Our Yesterdays
21-26 The Altar and the Flame
27 Beside the River
28 The Bomb that Burned the World
29-34 Chicago
35-42 College
64 01 Divided Loyalties
02 Eisenhower
03 Father
04 Four Maxims
05 Fragment
06 Freedom and Necessity
07 Future Into Past
08-09 Haldeman-Julius
10 He Has Lost His Love
11 The Hills of Home
12 In the Wilderness
13 James Carling
14 John Thomas, 1724-1776
15 Kansas Priest at St. Marys
16 A Kansas Story
17 Kansas Sunset
18 Kansas Town
19 Leonardo Through the Streets
20 The Mornin' After
21 Nature of Fate
22 The New Leonardo
23 Night Piece
24 Of One Who Died
25 On Death of an Old Man
26 On Farewell to Kansas
27 On Freedom and Tradition
28 On Sacrifice
29-45 A Passional
65 01-22 A Passional (Cont'd)
23-34 Princeton Church Controversey
66 01 The Promised Land
02 Ralph E. Ammon
03 The Red-Faced Man
04 Return to Kansas
05 Sad, The Night Wind
06 The Seeker
07 The Silent, Lonely Places
08 A Sketch From The War
09-26 Under the Cottonwood
27-28 Valentino
29 The Winner
67 01 Unpublished Documentary
1961, Ike of Abilene
02 Unpublished Essays, n.d.
"The Art of Poetry"
03 "Bergson's Concept of Evolution"
04 "Bergson's Description of Experience"
05-07 "Concerning the Study of Literature"
08 "Education For Citizenship In A Free Society"
09 "The Freedom To Know, And To Speak"
10 "Gertrude Stein: A Critical Appraisal"
11 "The Intellectual Principle"
12-13 "Metaphysical Concept of Essential Man"
14 "On Learning to Write"
15-17 "Pragmatism, Idealism, and Mysticism"
18 "In Quest of an Ideal"
19 "Survival"
20 "Youth and the Modern Temper"
21 Unpublished Poems
1936, "Tiger"
Unpublished Poems, n.d.
"Dirge for the Uninspired"
"For All Love"
"Morning, Noon, and Night"
"A Note On Causality"
"Ode For a Time of Dying"
"Oh, Sing Me a New Song!"
"Passion Song"
"Portrait of a Man of Learning"
"Soldiers"
"Trumpets"
"Ulysses in the Autumn Night"
Unpublished Short Stories, n.d.
22-24 "An Idea Becomes Flesh"
25 "The Battle for the Blue Valley"
26 "Beside the River"
27 "Beyond Calvary"
28 "Body of the Prophet"
29 "A Chord of Memory"
30-31 "Concerning Halley's Comet"
32 "The Dark Night's Angry Dream"
33 "Detergent"
34 "Drouth"
68 01 "General Lane and the Hog Thieves of Oskaloosa"
02-04 "Gold, The Gold Standard and America, 1933"
05 "The Great Leland"
06 "Helen and the Professor"
07-09 "The Hell of It"
10-11 "The Heroes"
12-13 "The House Beside the River"
14 "How Masie Found Herself"
15-16 "The Lake of Darkness"
17 "Lebanese Story"
18 "The Legacy"
19-20 "The Lonely Heart"
21 "Love"
22-23 "A Mingled Yarn"
24 "My Father Lay Dying"
25-27 "Nathan Leopold"
28 "National Farmers Organization"
29-31 "The Night Von Hindenburg Died"
69 01 "One Man"
02 "The Problem of Possibility and Actuality"
03 "Prologue To A Novel"
04 "Prologue To A 'Dirty' Novel"
05 "A Puritan To Kansas"
06-09 "Randall Pierce"
10 "Report on the Missouri Valley"
11 "Return"
12-13 "Samuel Crumbine"
14 "Schism of Body and Mind"
15 "The Silent Lonely Place"
16-17 "A String of Pearls"
18 "The Three Landscapes of Kansas"
19 "The Tiger"
20 "Tread Softly the Corridors of Night"
21 "The Tunnel of Love"
22 "A Weekend in the Country"
23 "What Somebody Said to the Golden Girl"
24 "Willabeth"
25-27 "Willard Stowe"
28 "Your Picture in the Paper"
70 Class Materials for Classes Taught by Davis
01-06 1945-1946, New York University, Editorial Policy and Public Opinion
07-09 1946, Kansas State College, History of Journalism
10 1976, Clark University, The Art of Biography
11-25 1977, Kansas State University, History of Journalism
26-28 1977, Kansas State University, History Seminar
29 1991, Clark University, Magazine Article Writing
71 Contests Judged by Davis
01-06 1974, National Book Awards
07 1980, Seaton Awards for Kansas Quarterly
08 1983, Creative Writing Contest for high school juniors and seniors sponsored by
Garden City Community College
09 1984, Creative Writing Contest for high school juniors and seniors sponsored by
Garden City Community College
Film Work by Davis
10-11 1988, INSIGNA films contacted Davis about working as a consultant on a film
about Charles Lindbergh for the PBS series The American Experience
Term Papers
12-16 1935, Master Thesis in part
Term Papers, n.d.
17 "A Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation Equations"
18 "Farmers in Politics"
19-21 "Locke, Berkeley, and Hume"
22 "The Philosophy of the Conservation Era"