Word: palmers
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...McCormack and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The guest list was impressive. All the Justices of the Supreme Court and most of the members of the Johnson Cabinet were there. The leaders of Congress were well represented. So was the newspaper-publishing industry-the Otis Chandlers of Los Angeles, the Palmer Hoyts of Denver, the Arthur Sulzbergers of New York. Top Washington Lawyers (and sometime Johnson advisers) Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford were present. So were Laurance Rockefeller and Harvard Law School Dean...
...Palmer's book is a sequel to The Challenge, which covered the years 1760-92, and is as conscientiously documented and skillfully reasoned as its predecessor. In it he spruces up the Revolution about as well...
Glossing over its dark side-the dogmatism, the factional fights, the bloodshed-the author argues that the revolutionaries, whatever their vices, fought for an egalitarian system, while the antirevolutionaries, whatever their virtues, were merely defending the aristocratic society. Palmer sees France's upheaval as a revolution of Western Civilization that has profoundly influenced "all revolutions since 1800, in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa," and he follows its meanderings until the dawn of the 19th century...
...Virtue of Terror. While Palmer is a meticulously honest historian incapable of suppressing any facts, he interprets them with some elasticity. He maintains, for instance, that Robespierre and John Adams were spiritual twins of the Enlightenment, that Adams in Robespierre's shoes might well have behaved as ruthlessly as the fanatic Jacobin...
...Cult of Audacity. The stumbling block in any apologia for the French-or Russian-Revolution is simply that lofty idealism generated appallingly barbaric action. The paradox has been noted not only by class-conscious conservatives, as Palmer suggests, but also by such unimpeachable libertarians as Albert Camus and George Orwell. Palmer writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more...