New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 325, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Footnotes. The Facts of T. R. Life. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Minor endpaper discoloration. Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900 – May 24, 2004) was an American literary critic and teacher, who specialized in 19th century American literature. Wagenknecht received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1932. His doctoral dissertation was a psychograph, Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait. He wrote and edited many books on literature and movies, and taught for many years at various universities, including the University of Chicago and Boston University. He also contributed many book reviews and other writings to such newspapers as The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune and to such magazines as The Yale Review and The Atlantic Monthly. A thinker of broad range, Wagenknecht wrote or edited books on Henry James, Lillian Gish, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jenny Lind, and Theodore Roosevelt. He even wrote novels (under the pseudonym Julian Forrest) about Joan of Arc and Mary, Queen of Scots. His first publication appeared in 1927; his last in 1994. The list of his books includes more than sixty titles. Wagenknecht himself pointed out his debt to Bradford and Sainte-Beuve: My specialty as a writer was the psychograph or character portrait, which I learned from Gamaliel Bradford, who, in turn, had been inspired by Sainte-Beuve. Bradford furnished an introduction to my first book of consequence, The Man Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait. More