Volume IV (1902) and Volumes V and VI (both 1922) lack the fervour of the first three volumes, presenting rather methodical accounts of national and international conventions and the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
The Many Lives of Tom Waits (Omnibus, £19.95) by Patrick Humphries is a methodical, yet entertaining, account of the life of an American genius who has managed to keep hold of his marbles.
Most of Russia's culprits are dead, but for Iraq, with its mass graves still fresh, Mr. Yakovlev prescribes a methodical settling of accounts, in two parts.
The novel is a methodical, minute-by-minute account of Manny's final day at the restaurant, from the moment his ramshackle Buick Regal ("the kind a grandmother might leave behind") pulls into the Red Lobster parking lot, until he drives out of the mall at 11 at night.
Mr. Greenburg, by his own account, is a "methodical, list-oriented person," and his laptop is full of spreadsheets that document what's wrong with the house.
According to this law, the misery that is bound with sensate existence is accounted for by a methodical chain of causation.
However, new leads are being pursued based on information gleaned from a methodical review by investigators of Hasan's computer and his multiple e-mail accounts.
She took a methodical approach.
He was a methodical man, he said.
He isn't a methodical man.
"I'm never a methodical rebuilder.
