a direct partisan purpose in [The Tragic Era], hoping to discredit the Republican Party in the South and re-solidify Southern support for the Democratic Party in the aftermath of the nomination of the Catholic Al Smith." It added to Roosevelt's already favorable view of Bowers. Books by Bowers The Irish Orators: A History of Ireland's Fight for Freedom (1916) The Life of John Worth Kern (1918) Introduction by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. The Party Battles of the Jackson Period (1922) Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America (1925; German translation, 1948; Italian translation, 1955) Long review in The New York Times. Beveridge and the Progressive Era (1932) Jefferson in Power: The Death Struggle of the Federalists (1936) The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving (1940; Spanish translation, 1946) The Young Jefferson, 1743-1789 (1945) Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution (1950) Making Democracy a Reality. Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk (J. P. Young lectures in American history, 1954) My Mission to Spain: Watching the Rehearsal for World War II (1954; French translation, 1956; Spanish translation, 1966; Italian translation, 1957) Chile Through Embassy Windows, 1939-1953 (1958; Spanish translation, 1939) My Life: The Memoirs of Claude Bowers (1962) Indianapolis in the 'Gay Nineties': High School Diaries of Claude G. Bowers, edited by Holman Hamilton and Gayle Thornbrough (1964) Articles, columns, and speeches by Bowers Further reading Jones, Kenneth Paul, ed. U.S. Diplomats in Europe, 1919–41 (ABC-CLIO. 1981) online on Bowsers' role in Europe, pp 129–148. Jessner, Sabine, and Peter J. Sehlinger. "Claude G. Bowers: A Partisan Hoosier." Indiana Magazine of History (1987): 217–243. online Roberts, George C. "Claude G. Bowers: Hoosier Historian and the Politics of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences. Vol. 17. (1982). Archival material The bulk of Bowers papers is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Correspondence with his friend and Democratic party leader James Farley is in the Farley papers in the Library of Congress. Correspondence with Robert Walton Moore relating to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) is in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York Correspondence with Theodore Fred Kuper (1932–1953) is held by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California The Columbia University Oral History Collection interviewed Bowers in 1959. A transcript is available. References External links Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame - Claude G. Bowers |- |- 1878 births 1958 deaths