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Herbert Hoover knew it all the time. So says Oregon State University's William Appleman Williams, dean of revisionist historians. In the New York Review of Books, Williams portrays Hoover as a prophet who fought against precisely the corporate America that radicals decry-"vast repetitive operations dulling the human mind," the congestion of the population, the economic domination of great wealth. "Hoover outlined our future in 1923," Williams concludes. "We are living in it now." The dour Quaker President was done in, according to Williams, "by his faith in the dream of a cooperative American community. The trouble with...
...involved American foreign affairs. The U.S., revisionists say, has become the imperialistic aggressor of the cold war, while the Soviet Union, even under Stalin, is seen as essentially cautious and realistic. In The Tragedy of American Diplomacy and more recently in The Roots of the Modern American Empire, William Appleman Williams -perhaps the longest-practicing revisionist-contends that the American pursuit of an open-door policy has brought it into conflict with nations around the world. Williams interprets every act of U.S. diplomacy in the light of his neo-Marxist conviction that capitalism must always expand in search...
...William Appleman Williams, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, will speak on "The Origin of American Imperialism" at 8 p.m. tonight at 2 Divinity Avenue...
...CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY (513 pp.)-William Appleman Williams-World Publishing...
America's grandchildren, says Khrushchev, will live under socialism. Professor William Appleman Williams of the University of Wisconsin can hardly wait-although socialism to him has a different meaning than to the Soviet boss. After a long and transparently loaded survey of U.S. history, his book asks a final question in academic gobbledygook: Is the nation really forced into a choice between "government by a syndicalist oligarchy relying on expansion" (roughly, the U.S. Progressive-New Deal movement) and "government by a class-conscious industrial gentry" (paternalistic capitalism)? Historian Williams' answer: There is a third possibility...