Volume 21, Number 9 · May 30, 1974
They Don't Make Them Like That Any More
By H. Stuart Hughes
The Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes
edited by David J. Danelski, edited by Joseph S. Tulchin
Harvard University Press, 363 pp., $15.00
Throughout my childhood and youth I suffered from being invariably identified as the grandson of one of the country's most prominent citizens. It was an awkward situation, which I handled mostly by evasion: I counted it a triumph when I managed for a few days or weeks to make my mark on my own without somebody referring to my antecedents. Subsequently, when I settled on the profession of historian, I found another reason for discretion: if I spoke or wrote of Charles Evans Hughes, how could I be true both to my calling and to family loyalty? And so my self-imposed silence continued for a quarter century after my grandfather's death.
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