1st Edition

A Present of Things Past

By Theodore Draper Copyright 2000
326 Pages
by Routledge

305 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

Theodore Draper is one of America's most trenchant and informed critics. A Present of Things Past gathers together ten of his most recent and most powerful selected essays, in which Draper, with his customary acuity and wit, tackles a host of issues that define America's political culture. A Present of Things Past is concerned with a reexamination of the Second World War in both its military... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- From Eisenhower to -- Eisenhower's War -- American Hubris -- Reagan's Junta -- From American Communism to -- American Communism Revisited -- The Class Struggle -- Soviet Reformers: From Lenin to Gorbachev -- History or -- Journalistic History -- To Quote or Not to Quote -- Neoconservative History -- The Mystery of Max Eitingon -- Index.

Biography

Theodore Draper,