Milton Meltzer Summary

Much of the subject matter in Milton Meltzer's nearly one hundred titles--poverty, religion, crime, peace, discrimination, slavery--concerns injustices especially common to America. "As a nonfiction c... Read more

Critical Essay by Sophia B. Mehrer [In Tongue of Flame: The Life of Lydia Maria Child, Milton Meltzer] has provided teenagers with an outstanding biography of a little-known nineteenth-century woman ... Read more

Critical Essay by Hoyt W. Fuller In Langston Hughes, the impressive new biography of the poet by Milton Meltzer, emphasis rightly is placed on the apparent simplicity of the man. The poet's co... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul M. Angle [In "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?: The Great Depression 1929–1933"], Mr. Meltzer is concerned primarily with the crash of 1929 and its effect, i... Read more

Critical Essay by Francis D. Lazenby A great deal has been written about slavery in the ancient world, but, unfortunately, some of the information is hidden away in scholarly books and journals often... Read more

Critical Essay by John K. Bettersworth Milton Meltzer, one of our best writers in the field of black history, handles the Reconstruction story in ["Freedom Comes to Mississippi"] with t... Read more

Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews [The Right to Remain Silent is a] passionate, far ranging defense of the Fifth Amendment protection of the right to remain silent which goes back to the origins of it... Read more

Critical Essay by Beryl Robinson "'I have been hunted like a wolf and now I am being sent away like a dog,'" uttered [Henry Wager] Halleck, one of the last leaders of the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly The reader of this excellent and searching book [The Right to Remain Silent] will have a thorough understanding of the constitutional right that insures due proces... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosalind K. Goddard Slavery and the abolitionist movement provide the background for this stiff historical novel [Underground Man]…. Meltzer's nonfiction accounts of b... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland Although fictionalized, the life story of Joshua Bowen … [in Underground Man] is based on fact: the sources cited in the author's postscript are eviden... Read more

Critical Essay by Sanford Schwartz Reading ["The Eye of Conscience: Photographers and Social Change" by Milton Meltzer and Bernard Cole] is a little like those times in school when you ... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly [Time of Trial, Time of Hope: The Negro in America, 1919–1941] begins with the return of Negro soldiers from World War I and ends with the threatened march ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anita Silvey [Milton Meltzer's] previous works of nonfiction have already established him as one of the finest American historians for young readers. [Bound for the Rio Grand... Read more

Critical Essay by Anita Silvey The Holocaust is a difficult subject to present to children; for although the tendency to protect young readers from harsh reality has been somewhat abandoned in the la... Read more

Critical Essay by Nancy Aghazarian Statistics alone cannot convey the extent of death and human misery suffered by the Jews of the holocaust…. [In Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust] M... Read more

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Mccorkle [Violin and Shovels: The WPA Art Projects, a New Deal for America's Hungry Artists of the 1930's is a] first-rate piece of reporting on the outlet t... Read more

Critical Essay by George P. Elliott [Though] Dorothea Lange's genius for seeing with a camera is what makes her important in the world and also intensifies the reader's interest in her,... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert David Turoff It is not clear why Milton Meltzer wrote [Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life]. She was a fine photographer, but that is not reason enough for a biograp... Read more

Critical Essay by Keith B. Cooper [In The Human Rights Book] Meltzer seeks to determine the condition of human rights since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. He offer... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland [All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery is] serious prose, dry but inherently dramatic…. Although Meltzer makes an occasional broad statement (&#x... Read more

Critical Essay by John Tchen When I received The Chinese Americans, my conditioned initial reaction was that it would probably be another poorly researched, poorly thought out and uncritical book abo... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Heins [Milton Meltzer, the] author of many books about the various ethnic groups living in the United States feels that the "story of the Hispanic Americans has been neg... Read more

Critical Essay by Marilyn Goldstein [Thaddeus Stevens and the Fight for Negro Rights is a] timely, authoritative account of the career of a fanatical anti-slavery Congressman…. Stevens'... Read more

Critical Essay by Terry Lawhead The story of the Ku Klux Klan is a nightmare, and [The Truth About the Ku Klux Klan] does a very fine job of examining and demystifying the bizarre history of a strang... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Coles [A] lot has happened in this country in the last century, as Milton Meltzer has shown in Bread—and Roses. The title comes from a poem by James Oppenheim, who saw... Read more

Critical Essay by Almont Lindsey [Bread—and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor, 1865–1915] provides a somewhat kaleidoscopic view of the plight of the worker and the more dramatic ep... Read more