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ROBERTS, ALBERT L. WEEKS \ COKIE

ROBERTS, BILL

ROBERTS, CHALMERS M.

Roberts, Charlmers M.

ROBERTS, COKIE

ROBERTS, HENRY L.

ROBERTS, STEVEN KELMAN \ COKIE

ROBERTS, STEVEN V.

ROBERTS, TOM HENEGHAN \ COKIE

ROBERTS, TOM HENEGHAN, COKIE

ROBERTSON, IAN

ROBERTSON, PRISCILLA

ROCHE, JOHN I.

ROCHE, JOHN P.

I Kill, Therefore I Am (December 1991)

I Kill, Therefore I Am Stalin: Breaker of Nations By Robert Conquest Viking. 346 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by John P. Roche For over 40 years Robert Conquest has been the terror of...

No Ear for the Music (May 1991)

No Ear for the Music The Keeper of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush By John Prados Morrow. 632 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by John ? Roche THIS book is...

A Moving Epiphany (May 1990)

A Moving Epiphany As I Saw It By Dean Rusk As told to Richard Rusk Norton. 672 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by John ? Roche I am never putoff by taciturnity. My father, who had been at sea as a...

Catching the 10:58 (February 1990)

Catching the 10:58 Harold Macmillan Volume II: 1957-1986 By A lis fair Home Viking. 544pp. $27.50. Reviewed by John ? Roche When F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that "American lives have no...

On the Intellectual Barricades (November 1989)

Writers & Writing ON THE INTELLECTUAL BARRICADES BY JOHN ? ROCHE I doubt if in the history of the 20th century you could discover a more bizarre assemblage of intellectuals than the...

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited (March 1989)

Perspectives THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED BY JOHN ?. ROCHE I don't want to sound churlish, but the rehash of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by the fraternity brothers on both sides is...

Clinging to Power (December 1988)

Clinging to Power Winston S. Churchill Volume VIII: Never Despair, 1945-65 By Martin Gilbert Houghton Mifflin. 1,456 pp. $40. Reviewed by John P. Roche I hold Martin Gilbert in the...

Ivy Spooks (November 1987)

Ivy Spooks Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1938-1961 By Robin W. Winks Morrow. 607pp. $22.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche This is a tough book to review. It is delightful,...

Swindled by Oxbridge Nobs (October 1987)

Swindled by Oxbridge Nobs Spy catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer By Peter Wright Viking. 392 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche It seems a bit bizarre...

Adventures of a Passionate Rationalist (March 1987)

Adventures of a Passionate Rationalist Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century By Sidney Hook Harper & Row. 628 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche It is simply impossible to...

The "Chilling" of John P. Roche (May 1985)

Perspectives THE 'CHILLING'OF JOHN P ROCHE BY JOHN R ROCHE Recent libel suits have led to a great furor among media pundits about the "chilling effect" of defamation actions. True, General...

The Last Edwardian (February 1985)

The Last Edwardian War Diaries: Politics and War in the Mediterranean 1943-1945 By Harold Macmillan St. Martin's. 800 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche Mr. Dooley, the witty Irish...

Captain Nemo from Plains (January 1983)

Writers & Writing CAPTAIN NEMO FROM PLAINS BY JOHN P. ROCHE From the moment he appeared on the national Democratic scene in 1975, Jimmy Carter spooked me. There was an autistic quality about the...

Life Among the Stalinists (May 1982)

Life Among the Stalinists The Hollywood Writers' Wars By Nancy Lynn Schwartz (Completed by Sheila Schwartz) Knopf. 334 pp. $17.95. Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party in the...

Remembering Roger Baldwin (September 1981)

Perspectives REMEMBERING ROGER BALDWIN BY JOHN P. ROCHE Since he had over 97 years in this vale of tears behind him, it did not come as a shock last August 26 to learn that Roger Baldwin was...

Remembering the Levitas Salon (December 1980)

Perspectives REMEMBERING THE LEWAS SALON BY JOHN P ROCHE My assignment forthis Christmas Book Issue was simply to review Burnett Bolloten's monumental study The Spanish Revolution: The Left and...

Benevolent Brezhnev in Afghanistan (January 1980)

Perspectives BENEVOLENT BREZHNEV IN AFGHANISTAN BY JOHN P ROCHE Leonid Brezhnev is a man who yields to no one in his respect for world opinion and the aspirations of the Afghan people....

The End of Libel (February 1978)

Perspectives THE END OF LIBEL BY JOHN P ROCHE ??ohn P Roche, the self-^ * I styled social democrat, was I in 1939-40 actually a mem-^ ber of a pro-Nazi youth movement His whole career is a...

Nothing New on LBJ (May 1976)

Nothing New on LBJ Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream By Doris Kearns Harper & Row. 576 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by John P. Roche Professor of Civilization and Foreign Affairs, Fletcher School...

Exorcising the Weimar Psychosis (April 1975)

Thinking Aloud EXORCISING THE WEIMAR PSYCHOSIS BY JOHN P. ROCHE "In the beginning was the Word [logos], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Thus St. John began the...

Memoirs of an Original (May 1972)

Memoirs of an Original In the Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 642 pp $13 50 Reviewed by John P. Roche Morris Hillquit Professor of Politics, Brandeis...

The Pentagon Papers and Historical Hindsight (July 1971)

THE PENTAGON PAPERS AND HISTORICAL HINDSIGHT BY JOHN P. ROCHE THE REAL PROBLEM created by publication of excerpts from the Pentagon's history of our involvement in Vietnam lies not so much in the...

Academic Smorgasbord (May 1971)

Perspectives ACADEMIC SMORGASBORD BY JOHN P. ROCHE A NUMBER of professors from New England colleges and universities happened to be present at a social function I recently attended. Inevitably...

Back to School (September 1970)

Thinking Aloud BACK TO SCHOOL BY JOHN P. ROCHE As another academic year begins, nervous administrators are busy strengthening campus security forces, moving rare books to fireproof sanctuaries,...

Agnew Makes History (July 1970)

Perspectives AGNEW MAKES HISTORY BY JOHN P. ROCHE I take a dim view of revising the past to meet the needs of the present. Perhaps it is a historian's pride of craftsmanship, or merely the...

Johnson, Vietnam and Instant History (April 1970)

Perspectives JOHNSON, VIETNAM AND INSTANT HISTORY BY JOHN P ROCHE As a historian I find it both intriguing and infuriating to watch the "Battle of Johnson's Speech"—that seemingly interminable...

Moralism and Foreign Policy (February 1970)

Perspectives MORALISM AND FOREIGN POLICY BY JOHN P. ROCHE The outstanding characteristic of American foreign policy today is the retreat from what might be called "moral-ism." In the hands of a...

Retreat of the Faculty (November 1969)

Thinking Aloud RETREAT OF THE FACULTY BY JOHN P. ROCHE The tremendous post World War II expansion of higher education has had its impact not only on student attitudes, but upon the nature of the...

On Fighting a Limited War-n Exchange In Reply (December 1968)

In Reply By John P. Roche WRITERScC^WRITING THE PURPOSE of my article was to stimulate some discussion on what seems to me to be the neglected dimension of the war in Vietnam. Since I am...

Can a Free Society Fight a Limited War? (October 1968)

THINKING ALOUD Can a Free Society Fight War? By John P. Roche In the spring of 1966, the President asked me to go to Vietnam to get the "feel" of the place and some sense of the possibilities...

The Fathers and the Wise Guys (April 1966)

THINKING ALOUD The Fathers and the Wise Guys By John P Roche Perhaps it is age, perhaps only the impact of some of the mail I have been getting on Vietnam, but for the first time in my life...

Profiles in "Tsoores" (August 1965)

Profiles in 'Tsoores' THE NEW RADICALISM IN AMERICA, 1889-1963: THE INTELLECTUAL AS SOCIAL TYPE By Christopher Lasch Knopf. 349 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by JOHN P. ROCHE Morris Hillquit...

The Liberals and Vietnam (April 1965)

THINKING ALOUD The Liberals and Vietnam By John P. Roche Ever since the pace of the hostilities in Vietnam accelerated, and particularly since the Administration's decision to bomb North Vietnam,...

Kennedy and the Politics of Modernity (August 1964)

THINKING ALOUD Kennedy and the Politics of Modernity By John P. Roche To the American historian of the future, who can rely only on the cold record, the accomplishments of the Kennedy...

The Uses of American Power (March 1964)

THINKING ALOUD The Uses of American Power By John P Roche No problem is more perplexing to liberals than the appropriate utilization of international power. For as long as I can remember,...

'Menace from the Right' (March 1962)

PERSPECTIVES 'Menace from the Right' John P Roche Hasn't the time come for a moratorium on exposures of the John Birch Society and the right-wing conspiracy? Hardly a week passes, it seems,...

DO-IT-YOURSELF SURVIVAL (October 1961)

PERSPECTIVES Do-it-Yourself Survival By John P. Roche The history of Western man has chronicled innumerable ab-berations, but I doubt if any free society has ever matched the nauseating display...

The Abolitionist Centennial: (August 1961)

Freedom Riders and the Civil War The Abolitionist Centennial By John P. Roche As the year 1961 opened, it looked as though the Civil War Centennial Commission, ponderously chaired by a...

FURTHER THOUGHTS ON INTERVENTION (June 1961)

U.S. policy in Latin America requires massive new program of democratic action FURTHER THOUGHTS ON INTERVENTION By John P. Roche San Jose For roughly two weeks, I have been visiting the...

Inside the Great Crusade: (April 1961)

Inside the Great Crusade Not to the Swift. By Tristram Coffin. Norton. 379 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by John P. Roche Morris Hillquit Professor of Politics, Brandeis University One of the...

Patience and Patronage: (February 1961)

Key to U.S. Policy Patience and Patronage By John P. Roche The United States is at last in motion; the catatonic years are finally over. We are going to take up the Soviet challenge, not flee...

British Labor's Last Mass-Leader: (August 1960)

BRITISH LABORS LAST MASS-LEADER By John P. Roche Death of 'Nye' Bevan leaves party without first-rate politician who can unify quarreling Socialist factions LONDON THE DEATH OF Aneurin Bevan...

BRITISH LABOR DILEMMA (August 1959)

Loyal Opposition faces general election lacking strong program or colorful leader british labor dilemma By John P. Roche London American radicals might be described as men with a cause but no...

BRITISH LABOR HISTORY (June 1959)

British Labor History Labour and Politics, 1900-1906. By Frank Bealey and Henry Petting. St. Martin's. 314 pp. $7.00. Reviewed by John P. Roche Professor of Politics, Brandeis University Labour...

A Judicial Physicist (January 1957)

A Judicial Physicist Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law. By Alpheus T. Mason. Viking. 832 pp. $9.50. PROFESSOR MASON'S biography of the late Chief Justice of the United States is an astounding...

Status and the Right (December 1955)

WRITERS and WRITING Status and the Right The New American Right. Ed. by Daniel Bell. Criterion. 239 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by John P. Roche Associate professor of political science, Haverford...

I'M SICK OF CONSERVATISM (August 1955)

ITS IRRELEVANT TO TODAY'S AMERICA By John P. Roche Over the last few years, the intellectual marketplace has been flooded with books, articles and tracts on "Conservatism." Bellwethering the...

STEVENSON AND THE BOY ALLIES (May 1955)

Stevenson and the Boy Allies How We Drafted Adltf Stevensony By Walter Johnson. Knopf. 176 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by John P. Roche Political Science Department, Haver ford College; co-author, "The...

Sidelights on the Election (October 1954)

Sidelights on the Election By John P. Roche Autumn is officially here, and, since this is an even-numbered year, the characteristic winds of September and October are being rapidly augmented by...

The Great Conspiracy Against Ickes (July 1954)

WRITERS and WRITING The Great Conspiracy Against Ickes The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes (Vols. I & II). Simon & Schuster. 738 + 759 pp. $6.00 per vol. Reviewed by John P. Roche Department of...

Explaining Away McCarthy (May 1954)

WRITERS and WRITING Explaining Away McCarthy McCarthy and His Enemies. By William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Regnery. 413 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by John P. Roche Department of Political...

ROCHE, JONN P.

Roche, Ronald Steel / John P.

RODGER, PETER W.

RODITI, EDOUARD

RODITI, EDUOARD

RODMAN, HOWARD A.

RODMAN, SELDEN

RODMAN, SELDON

ROFE, JOHN

ROGERS, JOEL

ROGERS, NAOMI

ROGERS, ROBERT F.