Wilkerson, a former national correspondent for The Times, has written a masterly and engrossing account of the Great Migration, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South between 1915 and 1970.

Needless to say, Mr. Dohnanyi gave masterly accounts of both works.

It was described as a "masterly" account of how "good - but conflicted and weakly held - Western intentions were swept away by the racist imperatives of the Serb leaders."

Prophetic words, indeed, Isabel Wilkerson insists in "The Warmth of Other Suns," her massive and masterly account of the Great Migration.

Tomorrow afternoon, you can catch Lorraine Hunt's masterly account of the title role in Handel's "Xerxes" at the New York City Opera.

While Caesar invites ambivalence, Mr. Chadwick's commanding performance is a masterly account of the paradox of fatalism and an object lesson in how to be fearful and uncertain without losing your cool.

In this masterly account, Hastings describes Japanese madness eliciting American ruthlessness in the Pacific Theater.

Tragedy is character, as the Greeks understood, and Mr. Oren's masterly account shows how apt that insight is to the tragedy-afflicted Middle East, past and present.

Mr. Prey gave a masterly account of Robert.

This book is not simply a distillation of the secondary literature; it is a masterly account - broad in scope as well as rich in detail and insight.