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Thanks for your review of The Age of Roosevelt-Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s latest. You very properly ask: "But is it history?" Many Harvard graduates wonder how a mere apologist came to occupy the chair of a professor of history on an otherwise distinguished faculty...
Your story on Rockefeller read like the officially approved biographies of Henry Ford and Mary Baker Eddy. TIME used to be an organ of sharp, witty criticism rather than a cliche-ridden apologist for a spiked version of the American Dream...
...referred to the riot as "those unspeakable happenings that merit all our reprobation because of their seriousness and the notably criminal circumstances surrounding them, and because they symbolize an alarming social disintegration." The church newspaper El Catolicismo was additionally irked that Rojas' son-in-law and No. 1 apologist, Samuel Moreno, should try to laugh off the riot in his newspaper as "trivial and paltry." Said El Catolicismo: "Thousands of witnesses denounce the vengeful spirit in which the riots avenged discourtesy with inhuman cruelty, cowardice [and] a reign of brute force...
...lifelong apologist for Soviet Russia, Nebraska-born Journalist Anna Louise Strong, 69. has not always found the party line easy to follow. On one stay in Russia, where she lived for years, she tried to join the Russian Communist Party, was turned down as a "sentimental bourgeois." The Russians, however, were tolerant enough to let her start the first English-language Soviet newspaper, the Moscow News. Then, in 1949, without explanation or warning, she was arrested in Moscow and charged with being "incriminated in espionage and subversive activities in the Soviet Union." Bewildered but still submissive to the will...
...itself become a front organization, the firm parted company with Cameron. Later, he appeared before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and used the Fifth Amendment when asked if he was a secret member of the Communist Party. Cameron joined up with tweedy, seedy Albert Kahn, a veteran Soviet apologist. Among the firm's recent products: The Testament of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Associated with Cameron and Kahn is Carl Aldo Marzani, wartime OSS employee, who served two years in prison for hiding his Communist Party affiliations in a federal loyalty test...