Word: roeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people know much about Machiavelli except that he sired the sinister adjective Machiavellian. Even those who know a little more differ widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...
CATHERINE DE' MEDICI-Ralph Roeder -Viking...
...could say, "I told you so." Altogether she and France had to survive eight civil wars. Survive them she did, though by the time they were over her purely maternal policy had involved her deep in gory deeds. For the treacherous massacre on Saint Bartholomew's Day, Biographer Roeder makes her directly responsible, attempts to show that the massacre was no part of a settled policy but a suddenly-enforced expedient to save her weak-kneed royal...
...forced to play strange parts to deceive the one and the other and yet, as she did, to protect her children, who reigned in succession by the wisdom of a woman so able? I wonder that she did not do worse!" The Author- Forty-six-year-old Ralph Roeder was in John R. Tunis' celebrated Class of 1911 at Harvard (TIME, Sept. 14) though he "never spoke to a living soul" while he was there, returned to his native Manhattan to join the Washington Square Players, drove an ambulance in Italy in the War, stage-managed in Paris...
...book's subtitle (The Lost Revolution) gives Author Roeder's thesis: that the revolt of the Huguenots, though it ended in failure, "bred a revolutionary consciousness which matured for 200 years," ripened at last in the French Revolution...