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William Lloyd Garrison has been cast by historians as the great Abolitionist, a role he warmly welcomed. In point of fact, Garrison was only the best publicized of the abolitionists, as this biography-the most objective yet written-makes clear. John L. Thomas, assistant history professor at Harvard, shows that the vituperative Garrison was less a leader of the abolitionists than an eccentric outcast who gave the whole movement a taint of fanaticism it did not deserve. Despite his dedication, in the end Garrison was more hindrance than help in ultimately freeing the Negro slaves...
...Garrison emerges from this biography as a classic case of the closed mind. He was so sure of his divine mission that he never bothered to sort out his ideas. Consequently, he was always contradicting himself without noticing it. He oscillated between extreme positions, never coming to rest at a practical one. Before the Civil War, he was an all-out pacifist; once it began, he was hell-bent on the destruction of the South. At a time when Utopian nostrums were the fad, Garrison fell for them all: religious perfectionism, phrenology, Graham bread (as a cure for neuroses), water...
...making Phi Beta Kappa. Caplin fulfilled predictions by finishing first in his law school class (average: 94.5). In addition, he won the Raven Award as an outstanding man in his class. As a youthful lawyer, Caplin found his way to the Wall Street firm of Paul. Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1950, before getting a doctor-of-laws degree as a night student at New York University, he went back to the University of Virginia to teach. By the time President Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's chief tax collector, Caplin was earning $15.000 a year...
...plot tries unsucessfully to establish a garrison background for the personality clash that is the real story, and merely causes intense boredom. The convolutions of the additional characters are too much to unravel; suffice it to say that all the army types are just that--types--and the women are loyal and kind, if sparingly and stupidly used. Miss York's part, particularly, is wasted, for she disappears about halfway through the film, never to reappear...
...military-industrial complex, their lobbyists in the Pentagon, and the cold warriors in Congress who want to build a Garrison state. You know: juggernaut, and all that...