Turner, Frank M. The American Historical Review 92, no. 3. 1987.

Abstract:

Gertrude Himmelfarb has become that rarest of entities, a historian who thinks before she writes whose prose demands that her reader rethink long- cherished positions. Like the Victorian intellectuals whose works she has illuminated for over three decades, Himmelfarb has in this volume, with one major exception, republished review essays of the past decade that are usually more important and virtually always more elegant than the works on which she is commenting. The value of these pieces lies less in the new information conveyed, for there is little, than in the new insights on generally familiar topics.

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