Word: historians
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...York campaign adviser who works mainly for Democrats, said his private polls show a strong anti-Carter sentiment developing among the electorate. If the nomination does not go to Ted Kennedy, Garth predicted, "then it's going to go to someone else"-but not to Carter. Historian James Shenton of Columbia University said, "Carter increasingly looks like a man out of his depth...
Another Columbia historian, Henry Graff, a specialist on the presidency, noted that some Presidents have been popular because they were father figures, like Eisenhower, or brother figures, like Kennedy, but "Carter seems like one of the boys on the corner. He doesn't appear to understand what leadership is. Making a change in his style is like a zebra opting to have spots instead of stripes-it doesn't make a significant difference...
Titled Freud: Biologist of the Mind (Basic Books), this iconoclastic study does not deny Freud's achievement. Says Author Frank J. Sulloway, 32, a historian of science and a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley: "What remains today of Freud's insights and influence ... provides ample testimony to his greatness." But according to Sulloway, who spent seven years on the book, the historical record has been manipulated by Freud's followers to make him appear more original, isolated and heroic than he really...
Nobody has yet explained satisfactorily why Abraham Lincoln innately understood that the most important task before him was to preserve the Union, not to free the slaves; that meeting the first challenge would allow him better to combat the second. "The essence of [Franklin] Roosevelt's presidency," wrote Historian Clinton Rossiter, "was his airy eagerness to meet the age head on." Roosevelt understood the reserve of U.S. courage in the time of Depression better than the people themselves did. He calculated the productive potential of America before World War II more accurately than did the leaders of industry. Franklin...
...land and the people animates his characters. Even the Rev. Mr. Broome drops his scholarly tone to write how Irish music "would come to us with the sadness of a lost world, each note a messenger sent wandering among the Waterford goblets." Yet the author is too honest a historian to let sympathy alter circumstances. The first taste of revolution is a heady draft, but the dregs of doom lie at the bottom of the glass. "It was all poetry," observes one survivor wistfully at the end. This thoughtful, graceful elegy is no less...