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• W36865145 abstract "Indiana: an Interpretation. By John Bartlow Martin. Introduction by James H. Madison. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, [1992]. $32.50, cloth; $5.95, paper.) For obvious reasons, most reviews introduce new books, or newly published reissues. The present book was first published in 1947, and reprinted several years ago. The reason for this review is personal: the reviewer has only recently discovered it and, a great admirer of John Bartlow Martin's two-volume biography of Adlai E. Stevenson II, wishes to bring Indiana: an Interpretation to the attention of other enthusiasts for Illinois and Midwestern history who may have missed it. For the fact is that Martin (1915-1987) was an extraordinarily fine writer and, whether one agrees with his various positions or not, this book reflects his great gifts as an observer, an interpreter, and a stylist. He lived in Illinois for many years, and his longest and probably finest work was about Stevenson, a major figure in Illinois and national history. Fortunately, James H. Madison, himself an excellent historian of Indiana, has appreciated Martin's rare qualities, and provides a model introduction, containing the essentials of Martin's own life as well as a sensitive highlighting of the book's special characteristics. Before proceeding further, one must note the price of the paperback edition listed above. It is not a misprint. But it suggests that Indiana University Press is eager to sell off the rest of their edition. Now, it appears, is the time to buy! Most of the things this reviewer disagrees with in Martin's Indiana are characteristics of the dominant intellectual culture of the twentieth century, especially as manifested in those historians who extravagantly praised Democratic Progressives, New Dealers, reform Darwinists, and writers of pessimistic fiction. My ten years of higher education were shaped by history professors who loved to make Republicans seem like buffoons and Democrats like wise and noble statesmen; and Professors of American Literature who praised the dark imaginings of Hawthorne and Melville, while dismissing the devout and sentimental Mrs. Stowe as sub-literary. Professor Madison, comparing Martin to most of those who have cultivated state and local history for reasons of patriotism and boosterism, finds Martin's attitude bracingly different. In fact it was highly conventional, except that most of the literary intellectuals who saw things the way Martin did were not much given to writing state and local history; when they did write it, they had few readers. In Martin's case that is a shame. For even where he is most dogmatic, as in mourning the passing of the family farm, the rise of commercial agriculture, and above all the triumph of profit-driven industrial capitalism, he can not describe a villain (such as the antiSemite, anti-Communist, America Firster Court Asher) without filling in the details that make him a twisted human being, yet human still. …" @default.
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