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...around. The accompanying text was almost of necessity an oversimplification of U.S. history. In the field of nostalgia, I Remember Distinctly, another big picture book, by Frederick Lewis Allen and his wife, showed the nation with its manners down between wars. After seven years in Mexico, Ralph Roeder turned up with Juarez and His Mexico, possibly the best written and ablest history of the year...
...Jewish doctor (Steve Geray) treats his injured hand. A theatrical costumer (Agnes Moorhead) gives him clothes. Not all the people he meets are brave, or intelligent, or kind. His former sweetheart (Karen Verne) has married a Nazi, his brother is a Storm Trooper. But his old friend Paul Roeder (Hume Cronyn), a rabbity little workman who is grateful to the Führer for his job and his three babies, also turns out to have a heart...
...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...
...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...