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AuthorDraper, Harold
AuthorDRAPER, R. S.
AuthorDRAPER, ROGER
Paid articleA Life in History (May 2001)
A Life in History By Roger Draper Some people are criticized as much for their virtues as their faults. The great English historian AJ.P. Taylor was such a man. Many of his colleagues...
Paid articleTraitors to Their Class (March 2001)
Writers & Writing Traitors to Their Class By Roger Draper Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt all embodied the great political archetype of the "traitor to his class"—the aristocrat, like...
Paid articleDegrees of Collaboration (July 2000)
Writers & Writing Degrees of Collaboration By Roger Draper Collaboration with the Germans was largely a matter of degree in France during World War II, for everyone in the country had to...
Paid articleSecrets of State (May 2000)
SUMMER BOOKS Secrets of State By Roger Draper American relations with the Soviet Union were bad from the first: The United States participated in the Western force that attempted to...
Paid articleOld Presidents Never Die (March 2000)
Writers & Writing Old Presidents Never Die... By Roger Draper President Ronald Reagan gave Boris N. Yeltsin no direct help during the years when he led the ultra-reform wing of the Soviet...
Paid articleThe Game Continues (December 1999)
Winter Books THE GAME CONTINUES By Roger Draper Until the 1980s the West seemed, even to many of its most ardent defenders, at a disadvantage in relation to the Communist East. It was not...
Paid articleJesus of Arabia (October 1999)
Writers & Writing JESUS OF ARABIA By Roger Draper In December 1914, a month after the Ottoman Empire declared war on the United Kingdom, 26-year-old T. E. Lawrence took up his duties as a...
Paid articleCulture Vultures (August 1999)
Writers & Writing CULTURE VULTURES By Roger Draper In the realm of traditional high culture the United States has been more receiver than creator. It is quite otherwise in popular and mass...
Paid articleThe War that Caused All Wars (June 1999)
Summer Books THE WAR THAT CAUSED ALL WARS By Roger Draper It began in Sarajevo, where a terrorist group under the influence of the Serbian government—which hoped to absorb the Serbs of...
Paid articleLabor's Spymaster (April 1999)
Writers & Writing LABOR'S SPYMASTER By Roger Draper Many people were hostile to Jay Lovestone, including some of his political allies. In 1923, when he was a prominent American Communist,...
Paid articleLooking Back at 'My' '60s (December 1998)
Winter Books LOOKING BACK AT 'MY' '60s By Roger Draper I was A Columbia undergraduate during the 1968 student "rebellion." One warm evening that May I was arrested at a demonstration, taken...
Paid articleThe Best of Cutthroats (October 1998)
Writers & Writing THE BEST OF CUTTHROATS By Roger Draper Byron, in Don Juan, described the Duke of Wellington as "the best of cutthroats." John Davison Rockefeller is another plausible...
Paid articleThe Hopeless Case of 'Hopefully' (June 1998)
SUMMER BOOKS THE HOPELESS CASE OF 'HOPEFULLY' BY ROGER DRAPER My Mother, a teacher, corrected my English. So did my father, a writer. I was to distinguish can from may. Fortuitous did not...
Paid articleA Dialogue with Islam (May 1998)
Writers & Writing A DIALOGUE WITH ISLAM By Roger Draper Of the three systems of belief springing from the Mosaic root, Judaism is the most explicitly ethnic in its basis, Christianity the...
Paid articleFor Richer or for Poorer (March 1998)
Writers & Writing FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER By Roger Draper Why are some nations richer than others? The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Norton, 650 pp., $30.00), a survey of the past 500 years...
Paid articleA Black Chapter in History (January 1998)
Writers & Writing A BLACK CHAPTER IN HISTORY By Roger Draper It is no wonder that black people feel angry about their fate in the past half-millennium and ask themselves, accusingly, Who is...
Paid articlePrelude to Slaughter (December 1997)
PRELUDE TO SLAUGHTER By Roger Draper Civil wars are generally more brutal than wars among nations, for in the struggle of neighbor against neighbor one side must win absolutely. Three were...
Paid articleThe Bible from Epic to History (October 1997)
Writers & Writing THE BIBLE FROM EPIC TO HISTORY By Roger Draper I grew up in an emancipated Jewish family and neglected to read the Bible until I was 30. My interest in Scripture...
Paid articleThe Man in the Red Mask (August 1997)
Writers & Writing THE MAN IN THE RED MASK By Roger Draper One of the many benefits of Communism's downfall has been the willingness of its former leaders to write much franker and more...
Paid articleThe Man Who Remade Industry (May 1997)
THE MAN WHO REMADE INDUSTRY By Roger Draper Frederick Winslow Taylor, by common consent the father of scientific management, was arguably the single most important person in the industrial...
Paid articleBuckling the Bible Belt (April 1997)
Writers & Writing BUCKLING THE BIBLE BELT By Roger Draper The kind of ascetic Evangelical Christianity that impinges so forcefully on our politics today is strongly associated with the...
Paid articleA Philosopher in the Boudoir (December 1996)
A WINTER. PHILOSOPHER IN THE BOUDOIR BY ROGER DRAPER Bertrand Russell was the foremost intellectual hero of my youth, but I did not think him a faultless hero, because his three-volume...
Paid articleLenin's Chosen Capitalist (November 1996)
Writers & Writing LENIN'S CHOSEN CAPITALIST BY ROGER DRAPER FROM His young manhood a cloud of suspicion hung over Dr. Armand Hammer. The distrust was well-founded: Documents recently discovered...
Paid articleSpringtime for Hitler-and Stalin (August 1996)
SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER— AND STALIN BY ROGER DRAPER EARLY THIS YEAR Publishers Weekly reported that St. Martin's Press was scheduled to issue a controversial new biography of Hitler's propaganda...
Paid articleSatan in Salem (July 1996)
Writers &Writi ng SATAN IN SALEM BY ROGER DRAPER EVERY NATION has its own catalog of sin, and in ours a prominent place belongs to the Salem witch craze of 1692, the subject of Peter Charles...
Paid articleA 'New Idea' That Failed (May 1996)
Writers & Writing A 'NEW IDEA' THAT FAILED BY ROGER DRAPER WRITERS OF BOOKS on Communism have always had their subject matter defined for them by the Comintern, the international Communist...
Paid articleSpinning a Wider Web (December 1995)
SPINNING A WIDER WEB BY ROGER DRAPER WHAT IS NOW CALLED the "information industry" dates back at least to the invention of writing. Four thousand years ago, literacy was confined to a minuscule...
Paid articleThe Market Monarchs (December 1995)
THE MARKET MONARCHS BY ROGER DRAPER For more than a generation, the most common academic model for Wall Street investment has been the "efficient market" (or "random walk") theory. EMT holds that...
Paid articleThe Inquisition Inquisited (September 1995)
Writers & Writing THE INQUISITION INQUISITED BY ROGER DRAPER FOR THE JEWS, as for the peoples of Africa and America, modern times were ushered in by disaster: In 1492, while Columbus sailed...
Paid articleThe Unrevised Truth (June 1995)
THE UNREVISED TRUTH BY ROGER DRAPER THE earliest serious historians of the American Communist Party—Irving Howe and Louis Coser, and Theodore Draper—regarded it chiefly as the instrument of its...
Paid articleA Citizen of the World (May 1995)
Writers &Writing A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD BY ROGER DRAPER IN The Old Regime and the French Revolution Tocqueville denounces "Revolutionaries of a hitherto unknown breed," who in the 1790s...
Paid articleLiberalism's Road to Disaster (February 1995)
Writers & Writing LIBERALISM'S ROAD TO DISASTER BY ROGER DRAPER OVER the last three decades some of the most fundamental and long-standing assumptions of American politics have largely been...
Paid articleThe Late Twentieth Century (September 1995)
THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY ROGER DRAPER IS THE 20th century really over, as Eric Hobsbawm affirms with The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Pantheon, 627 pp., $30.00)? All historians agree that as...
Paid articleA Fascist of Sorts (November 1994)
Writers & Writing A FASCIST OF SORTS BY ROGER DRAPER IN 1979 JEANE KIRKPATRICK, later Ronald Reagan's first ambassador to the UN, won sudden notoriety by publishing in Commentary an article...
Paid articleVoices from Striver's Row (September 1994)
Writers &Writing VOICES FROM STRIVER'S ROW BY ROGER DRAPER UNTIL THE 1950s, most American blacks lived in the parts of the South best suited to plantation agriculture. Even if racial separation...
Paid articleA Marriage of Convenience (July 1994)
Writers & Writing A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE BY ROGER DRAPER MOST INTERNATIONAL trade and investments is conducted among the biggest players: the United States, Japan and the European...
Paid articleTricky to the End (June 1994)
TRICKY TO THE END BY ROGER DRAPER WAS THE LATE Richard Milhous Nixon the supremely wicked American politician of his times? Many people, including me, thought so long before the Watergate scandal...
Paid articleRussia's Impermanent Revolution (April 1994)
Writers & Writing RUSSIA'S IMPERMANENT REVOLUTION by roger draper IN the early 1950s, when E.H. Carr published his three-volume Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923, until recently perhaps the single...
Paid articleThe Wisdom of the Northeast (February 1994)
Writers & Writing THE WISDOM OF THE NORTHEAST BY ROGER DRAPER JAMES BRYAN CONANT, Harvard's 23rd president, was one of the famous Wise Men, that generation of luminaries who "guided America from...
Paid articleThe First New World (October 1993)
Writers & Writing THE FIRST NEW WORLD BY ROGER DRAPER The term "Europe" originally denoted a certain part of what is now central Greece. Although encyclopedias currently define it as the whole...
Paid articleFall from Grace (September 1993)
Writers & Writing FALL FROM GRACE BY ROGER DRAPER Alexander Orlov, the highest-ranking officer ever to defect from the Soviet intelligence service, has always been a problematical character....
Paid articleA Historian as Prophet (June 1993)
Writers & Writing A HISTORIAN AS PROPHET BY ROGER DRAPER In 1798, as Europe was preparing to enter the 19th century, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population. The...
Paid articleA Need to Belong (May 1993)
A NEED TO BELONG BY ROGER DRAPER The literature of disillusionment with Communism is disproportionately the work of educated middle-class people. Sidney Rittenberg—an American who joined the...
Paid articleAsk Any Bosnian (May 1993)
Writers & Writirig ASK ANY BOSNIAN BY ROGER DRAPER The columnist George Will once said conservatism is a philosophy suited to fans of the Chicago Cubs, who know from experience that the hopes of...
Paid articleChina's Lost Opportunity (January 1993)
Writers & Writing CHINA'S LOST OPPORTUNITY BY ROGER DRAPER V For centuries China has been the poorest and most isolated of all major nations. Yet that wasn't always so. In 1405, when the...
Paid articleThe Brothers Kennedy (December 1992)
THE BROTHERS KENNEDY BY ROGER DRAPER To anyone who came of age in the 1960s, as I did, the emotional climax of last summer's Democratic convention was surely the film clip of 16-year-old Bill...
Paid articleOur Gulf Warriors (November 1992)
Writers & Writing OUR GULF WARRIORS BY ROGER DRAPER General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the recently retired Commander in Chief (CINC) of the coalition forces in the Persian Gulf conflict, and his...
Paid articlePutting Welfare to Work (September 1992)
Writers & Writing PUTTING WELFARE TO WORK BY ROGER DRAPER Apart from giving money to foreigners and exploring outer space, the provision of welfare is the least popular government undertaking. By...
Paid articleWriters & Writing Missing the Midas Touch (August 1992)
Writers & Writing MISSING THE MIDAS TOUCH BY ROGER DRAPER W. Averell Harriman, though born to greatness, was the son of a self-made man. In 1862, at the age of 14, E. H. Harriman left school...
Paid articleA Voice of Silence (June 1992)
Writers & Writing A VOICE OF SILENCE BY ROGER DRAPER For upward of a hundred years the professions, institutions and government agencies that deal with deaf people have worked to assimilate them...
Paid articleA Tale of Two Continents (June 1992)
A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS BY ROGER DRAPER In 1941 Base. Davidson, a 26-year-old captain in the British Army, was captured in Yugoslavia and sent to an Italian jail. He was lucky: The Duke of Aosta,...
Paid articleP.C. Pipe Dreams (April 1992)
Writers & Writing P.C. PIPE DREAMS BY ROGER DRAPER A Although the term "political correctness" (PC) was apparently first coined by Left-wingers in the 1970s, I did not become aware of it until...
Paid articleToo Close to Call (March 1992)
Writers & Writing TOO CLOSE TO CALL BY ROGER DRAPER Soviet COMMUNISM collapsed last December not with a bang but with the very mildest of whimpers. Yet this was certainly the most important...
Paid articleA Pharmaceutical Cinderella (January 1992)
Writers & Writing A PHARMACEUTICAL CINDERELLA BY ROGER DRAPER A Although aspirin has long been the most widely consumed of all drugs, until the 1960s it was the mere common drudge of the medical...
Paid articleWho Killed Jewish Boston? (December 1991)
WHO KILLED JEWISH BOSTON? BY ROGER DRAPER During the spring of 1987 a remarkable letter appeared in a trade publication called the Metropolitan Real Estate Journal. Written by an anonymous...
Paid articleFrom Far Left to Far Right (November 1991)
Writers & Writing FROM FAR LEFT TO FAR RIGHT BY ROGER DRAPER During the 1970s, Paul Johnson departed the immoderate Left of the British Labor Party for the immoderate Right of the British...
Paid articleThe Greatest Good (August 1991)
Writers & Writing THE GREATEST GOOD BY ROGER DRAPER Little more than half a century ago there was not much medical research in the United States, or anywhere else for that matter. Neither did...
Paid articleA Tragedy Without a Hero (May 1991)
SPRING BOOKS A TRAGEDY WITHOUT A HERO BY ROGER DRAPER The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, in 1951, was among the greatest public dramas in American history. Against the defendants stood...
Paid articleAn American Exodus (April 1991)
Writers & Writing AN AMERICAN EXODUS BY ROGER DRAPER The current configuration of the American race problem has a false air of permanence about it. Yet as Nicholas Lemann shows in The...
Paid articleThe Japan that Could Say Maybe (February 1991)
Writers & Writing THE JAPAN THAT COULD SAY MAYBE BY ROGER DRAPER FROM the 1630s until March31,1854, when Commodore Matthew C. Perry of theU.S. Navy signed a treaty of "firm, lasting, and...
Paid articleRussia's Manifest Destiny (January 1991)
Writers & Writing RUSSIA'S MANIFEST DESTINY BY ROGER DRAPER The specter of inevitability haunts Russian and, still more, Soviet history. Did the Bolshevik police state become a foregone...
Paid articleA Slippery Business (December 1990)
A SLIPPERY BUSINESS BY ROGER DRAPER In 1856, standing in front of a drug store in New York, a former pedagogue and journalist named George Bissell saw an advertisement for a medicine derived...
Paid articleThe Right Side of the Left (October 1990)
Writers & Writing THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LEFT BY ROGER DRAPER Denis Healey has suffered the fate of being perhaps less popular in his own British Labor Party than in all of its rivals. The...
Paid articleEtiquette and Equality (September 1990)
Writers & Writing ?TIQU?TT? AND EQUALITY BY ROGER DRAPER Ruies OF DEPORTMENT govem much of our daily lives, and we tend to accept them even though we understand that some are at least partly...
Paid articlePassing the White Man's Burden (August 1990)
Writers & Writing PASSING THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN BY ROGER DRAPER I? fall 1943, at the emotional apogee of the U.S.-British friendship, Harold Macmillan was in North Africa as Winston...
Paid articleReluctant Relatives (May 1990)
Reluctant Relatives Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada By Seymour Martin Lipset Routledge. 337pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Roger...
Paid articleAll in the Family (November 1984)
All in the Family Prince Albert: A Biography By Robert Rhodes James Knopf. 299 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Roger Draper Prince Albert , Queen Victoria's beloved husband, was the first royal...
Paid articleDiscovering My Bourgeois Self (April 1968)
View from the Campus??IV Discovering My Bourgeois Self By Roger Draper Iwas 10 years old, and in the sixth grade, when the Great School Terror first entered my life. The New York City public...
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AuthorDRAPER, THEODORE
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