Eric L. McKitrick

Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)

From the Review

November 29, 2001: The Good Loser*

Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper Jr.

Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart by Felicity Allen

November 4, 1999: Washington the Liberator*

George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America by Robert F. Dalzell Jr., by Lee Baldwin Dalzell

October 21, 1999: The Liberator*

All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer

April 23, 1998: JQA: For the Defense*

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel

Amistad a film directed by Steven Spielberg, and produced by Steven Spielberg, by Debbie Allen, by Colin Wilson

Amistad an opera, musical score by Anthony Davis, libretto by Thulani Davis

April 24, 1997: Portrait of an Enigma*

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

November 14, 1996: A Hero of Antislavery*

Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller

June 11, 1992: The Great White Hope*

Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union by Robert V. Remini

December 6, 1990: Did Jefferson Blunder?*

Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson

May 17, 1990: Reconstructing Andrew Johnson*

Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans L. Trefousse

December 17, 1970: The View from Jefferson's Camp*

Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 (Volume IV, Jefferson and his Time) by Dumas Malone

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography by Merrill D. Peterson

November 5, 1970: A Pinch of Saltus*

Edgar Saltus by Claire Sprague

June 9, 1966: Goodbye to All That*

The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union by George Fredrickson

February 17, 1966: The Age of Deference*

The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy by David Hackett Fischer

September 16, 1965: Survey Course*

The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison

February 25, 1965: An Old Story*

Rehearsal For Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment by Willie Lee Rose

Books by Eric L. McKitrick

Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (1988)
Andrew Johnson; A Profile (1969)