Theodore H. Draper
Theodore Draper's books include The Roots of American Communism and A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. He is at work on a book about the nineteenth century in the US. (September 1999)
From the Review
September 23, 1999: Freedom and Its Discontents
The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner
March 18, 1999: The Four-Sided War
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography by Louis A. Pérez Jr.
May 28, 1998: A Dysfunctional Family
From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy after 1921 by André Liebich
April 9, 1998: Sidney Hook's Revolution
Young Sidney Hook by Christopher Phelps
December 4, 1997: The Drama of Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition) by Allen Weinstein
November 20, 1997: The Case of Cases
Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition) by Allen Weinstein
October 23, 1997: 'Is the CIA Necessary?': An Exchange
August 14, 1997: Is the CIA Necessary?
Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala 1952-1954 Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C. by Nicholas Cullather. History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central
CIA and Guatemala Assassination Proposals 1952-1954 by Gerald K. Haines. CIA History Staff Analysis
Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs by Richard M. Bissell Jr.
Secrecy: Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy Chairmen: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Larry Combest
May 9, 1996: Our Man in Moscow
Operation SOLO: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin by John Barron
April 4, 1996: Rise & Fall of a Revolutionary
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman
November 2, 1995: An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol
August 10, 1995: McNamara & Vietnam (letter)
May 25, 1995: The Abuse of McNamara
May 11, 1995: McNamara's Peace
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara, by Brian VanDeMark
November 3, 1994: The Penitent Sinner
Special Trust by Robert C. McFarlane, by Zofia Smardz
October 6, 1994: Mission Impossible
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century by Tony Smith
July 14, 1994: Nixon Redivivus
The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House by H.R. Haldeman, introduction and afterword by Stephen E. Ambrose
Nixon: A Life by Jonathan Aitken
Nixon Reconsidered by Joan Hoff
Watergate by Fred Emery
The Nixon Memo by Marvin Kalb
Beyond Peace by Richard Nixon
June 23, 1994: The Old Left: An Exchange
March 24, 1994: 'Joseph Lash and the CP (letter)
March 3, 1994: Walsh's Last Stand
Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters—United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Vol. I, Investigations and Prosecutions by Lawrence E. Walsh Independent Counsel
Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters—United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Vol. II, Indictments, Plea Agreements, Interim Reports to Congress, and Administrative Matters by Lawrence E. Walsh Independent Counsel
Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters—United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Vol. III, Comments and Materials Submitted by Individuals and Their Attorneys Responding to Volume I of the Final Report by Lawrence E. Walsh Independent Counsel
Iran-Contra: The Final Report by Lawrence E. Walsh
January 13, 1994: The Life of the Party
When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929–1941 by Robert Cohen
New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism edited by Michael E. Brown, edited by Randy Martin, edited by Frank Rosengarten, edited by George Snedeker
July 15, 1993: A Note on 'Ruthenia' (letter)
July 15, 1993: What Shultz Knew (letter)
June 10, 1993: Iran-Contra: The Mystery Solved
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State by George P. Shultz
Fourth Interim Report to Congress by Lawrence E. Walsh. Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters
With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III
May 27, 1993: The Iran-Contra Secrets
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State by George P. Shultz
Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences Are Turned into Crimes by Elliott Abrams
Fourth Interim Report to Congress by Lawrence E. Walsh Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters.
With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III
April 8, 1993: 'The End of Czechoslovakia': An Exchange
January 28, 1993: The End of Czechoslovakia
January 14, 1993: A New History of the Velvet Revolution
June 11, 1992: Who Killed Soviet Communism?
The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons by Mikhail Gorbachev
'Gorbachev's Endgame' by Jerry F. Hough
'Liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe'
April 9, 1992: 'The Gulf War Reconsidered'
March 26, 1992: 'The True History of the Gulf War': An Exchange
January 30, 1992: The True History of the Gulf War
From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy, and Coalition Warfare in the Persian Gulf by James F. Dunnigan, by Austin Bay
In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf by Roger Cohen, by Claudio Gatti
Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait by Norman Friedman
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino
Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War
On the Basra Road by Stephen Sackur
George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith
The Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf by John J. Fialka
January 16, 1992: The Gulf War Reconsidered
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino
Kuwait and Iraq: Historical Claims and Territorial Disputes by Richard Schofield
From the House of War by John Simpson
Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar by Jill Crystal
Saddam's War: The Origins of the Kuwait Conflict and the International Response by John Bulloch, by Harvey Morris
Under Siege in Kuwait by Jadranka Porter
November 21, 1991: 'Presidential Wars': An Exchange
September 26, 1991: Presidential Wars
Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs by Louis Henkin
Constitutional Diplomacy by Michael J. Glennon
August 16, 1990: The Constitution Still in Danger: An Exchange
June 14, 1990: How Not to Deal with the Iran-Contra Crimes
May 31, 1990: Was There a Missing Witness?
May 17, 1990: 'The Constitution in Danger': An Exchange
March 29, 1990: Did Noriega Declare War?
March 1, 1990: The Constitution in Danger
August 17, 1989: Revelations of the North Trial
April 27, 1989: Truth about Ghorbanifar (letter)
March 2, 1989: 'Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story': An Exchange
January 19, 1989: Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story
Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings by Senators William S. Cohen, by George J. Mitchell
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North by Ben Bradlee Jr.
The Iranian Triangle: The Untold Story of Israel's Role in the Iran-Contra Affair by Samuel Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair by Michael A. Ledeen
Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988 by Jane Mayer, by Doyle McManus
August 18, 1988: More Eitingon Mystery (letter)
June 16, 1988: 'The Mystery of Max Eitingon': An Exchange
April 14, 1988: The Mystery of Max Eitingon
March 31, 1988: Public Diplomacy (letter)
December 17, 1987: An Autopsy
October 22, 1987: The Fall of an American Junta
October 8, 1987: The Rise of the American Junta
July 16, 1987: American Hubris: From Truman to the Persian Gulf
April 23, 1987: Reagan's Junta (letter)
January 29, 1987: Reagan's Junta
November 20, 1986: The Fate of Poland (letter)
October 23, 1986: Eisenhower's War: The Final Crisis
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 by David Eisenhower
October 9, 1986: Eisenhower's War-II
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 by David Eisenhower
September 25, 1986: Eisenhower's War
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 by David Eisenhower
August 14, 1986: Yalta & the Fate of Poland: An Exchange
May 29, 1986: A Comment
April 24, 1986: Neoconservative History: An Exchange
January 16, 1986: Neoconservative History
September 26, 1985: Communism Re-Revisited (letter)
August 15, 1985: Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
May 30, 1985: The Popular Front Revisited
The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade by Harvey Klehr
Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War by Maurice Isserman
The American Communist Party: A Critical History by Irving Howe, by Lewis Coser
Communists in Harlem During the Depression by Mark Naison
The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions by Roger Keeran
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists a film by Julia Reichert, by James Klein
The View from Inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis by Jane Jenson, by George Ross
May 9, 1985: American Communism Revisited
Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War by Maurice Isserman
The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade by Harvey Klehr
Steve Nelson: American Radical by Steve Nelson, by James R. Barrett, by Rob Ruck
A Long Journey by George Charney
A Long View from the Left by Al Richmond
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson by Nell Irvin Painter
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist by Harry Haywood
February 14, 1985: Pie in the Sky
August 16, 1984: Rhineland (letter)
May 31, 1984: 'Nuclear Temptations': An Exchange
March 15, 1984: An Exchange on Dominoes
January 19, 1984: Nuclear Temptations
October 27, 1983: Falling Dominoes
August 18, 1983: On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense
November 4, 1982: Dear Mr. Weinberger An Open Reply to an Open Letter
September 23, 1982: 'How Not to Think About Nuclear War': An Exchange
July 15, 1982: How Not to Think About Nuclear War
"Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance," by McGeorge Bundy, by George F. Kennan, by Robert S. McNamara, by Gerard Smith
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
Nuclear Illusion and Reality by Solly Zuckerman
November 30, 1972: Kissinger's Mentor (letter)
December 3, 1970: Exchange on Black Nationalism
July 2, 1970: Writing Black History (letter)
May 21, 1970: An Exchange on Black History
March 12, 1970: The Father of American Black Nationalism
July 13, 1967: How Not to Negotiate (letter)
May 4, 1967: A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate
December 1, 1966: Haunting (letter)
September 8, 1966: Research (letter)
October 28, 1965: Marxism (letter)
Books by Theodore H. Draper
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution (1996)
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs (1991)
A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays (1990)
Present History (1983)
American Communism and Soviet Russia: The Formative Period (1977)
The Roots of American Communism (1977)
The Rediscovery of Black Nationalism (1970)
Israel and World Politics: Roots of the Third Arab-Israeli War (1968)
84th Infantry Division in the Battle of Germany (1946)