| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Worthington Chauncey Ford: Scholar and Adventurer. By Louis Leonard Tucker. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. xvi, 247 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-55553-480-5.)

Louis Leonard Tucker, former director of the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), has written the first book-length study of Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941), a leading force in the organizational revolution that modernized historical scholarship in the United States. Little remembered today, Ford was a prodigious historical editor, archivist, and bibliographer, a 'workaholic' (Tucker's characterization) whose immense output undergirded his reputation among his contemporaries as the premier authority on the documents of early American history. Active in the American Historical Association throughout his life, he served as its president in 1917. The centerpiece of his career was his twenty years of service as editor of publications and de facto director of the MHS (1909-1929). There, together with his patron Charles Francis Adams, he strove to transform the MHS from an insular 'social club' of self-selected Boston gentlemen into a major scholarly research center for the study of American history, one whose vast library holdings were, for the first time, made accessible to the interested public. . . .

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