. . . . . "He writes with insight and affection about such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and he???s at his best ??? in fact it???s the best thing in this book ??? when writing about Francis Underwood, ???The Editor Who Was Never An Editor,??? a quiet, unassuming man who was present at the legendary 1857 dinner party at which The Atlantic was created (thes" .