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...Left, government repression, the superficially socialistic New Deal, and the advent of World War II constituted political obstacles that may well have been insurmountable. In any case, a sophisticated analysis of the Socialist Party's decline is a task more suited to an academic than to a biographer, and Swanberg is more interested in providing a complete, detailed study of his subject than he is in assaying Thomas's tactics...
...Luce and His Empire, Swanberg...
...Luce and His Empire, Swanberg 9-The Joy of Sex, Comfort 10-Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Planner
...conspiracy theory of history customarily obscures such lessons as can be learned from the past. Swanberg correctly deplores the "20 years of treason" label which Republicans used to blame Democrats for the fact that the post-World War II decade did not swiftly flower into the American century. But Swanberg has done the same kind of thing himself...
...isolationism in 1937-1940, and so help preserve Europe from Adolf Hitler, has now become a rhetorical excuse for bombing Viet Nam. That is, among other things, an American tragedy, which might have been profitably explored through the life and times of Henry R. Luce. Swanberg, alas, was too angry to be serious...