Theodore Draper

Theodore Draper is the author of many books, including Castroism, The Roots of American Communism and A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs. A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution will appear later this year.

Letter
Eric Foner’s review of my book, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution was unconscionably biased (LRB, 18 April). Here are three examples of Foner’s methods.1. Foner: ‘It is certainly odd to encounter a book on the coming of the Revolution in which the words “liberalism" and “republicanism" do not appear in the index and the Country Party ideology is treated in a single paragraph.’Draper:...

Separation Anxiety

Eric Foner, 18 April 1996

The American Revolution is the subject of a rich and complex historical literature. In the 19th century, George Bancroft, the father of American historical writing, portrayed it as the...

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On the imagining of conspiracy

Christopher Hitchens, 7 November 1991

Fine phrases about the freedom of the individual and the inviolability of the home were exchanged between the Minister of State and the Prefect, to whom M. de Sérisy pointed out that the...

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