Theodore H. Draper (1912–2006) was an American historian. Educated at City College, he wrote influential studies of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution and the Iran-Contra Affair. Draper was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 1990 recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.
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Freedom and Its Discontents
September 23, 1999
The Story of American Freedom
by Eric Foner
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The Four-Sided War
March 18, 1999
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
by Louis A. Pérez Jr.
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A Dysfunctional Family
May 28, 1998
From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy after 1921
by Andr̩ Liebich
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Sidney Hook’s Revolution
April 9, 1998
Young Sidney Hook
by Christopher Phelps
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The Drama of Whittaker Chambers
December 4, 1997
Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition) by Allen Weinstein
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The Case of Cases
November 20, 1997
Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition) by Allen Weinstein
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‘Is the CIA Necessary?’: An Exchange
October 23, 1997
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Is the CIA Necessary?
August 14, 1997
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
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Our Man in Moscow
May 9, 1996
Operation SOLO: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin by John Barron
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Rise & Fall of a Revolutionary
April 4, 1996
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman
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An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual
November 2, 1995
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol
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McNamara & Vietnam
August 10, 1995
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The Abuse of McNamara
May 25, 1995
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McNamara’s Peace
May 11, 1995
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
by Robert S. McNamara, by Brian VanDeMark
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The Penitent Sinner
November 3, 1994
Special Trust
by Robert C. McFarlane, by Zofia Smardz
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Mission Impossible
October 6, 1994
America’s Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century by Tony Smith
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Nixon Redivivus
July 14, 1994
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
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The Old Left: An Exchange
June 23, 1994
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‘Joseph Lash and the CP
March 24, 1994
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Walsh’s Last Stand
March 3, 1994
Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra MattersUnited 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 MattersUnited 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 MattersUnited 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
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The Life of the Party
January 13, 1994
When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 19291941 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
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A Note on ‘Ruthenia’
July 15, 1993
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What Shultz Knew
July 15, 1993
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Iran-Contra: The Mystery Solved
June 10, 1993
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
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The Iran-Contra Secrets
May 27, 1993
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
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‘The End of Czechoslovakia’: An Exchange
April 8, 1993
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The End of Czechoslovakia
January 28, 1993
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A New History of the Velvet Revolution
January 14, 1993
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Who Killed Soviet Communism?
June 11, 1992
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’
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‘The Gulf War Reconsidered’
April 9, 1992
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‘The True History of the Gulf War’: An Exchange
March 26, 1992
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The True History of the Gulf War
January 30, 1992
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
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The Gulf War Reconsidered
January 16, 1992
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
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‘Presidential Wars’: An Exchange
November 21, 1991
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Presidential Wars
September 26, 1991
Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs
by Louis Henkin
Constitutional Diplomacy by Michael J. Glennon
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The Constitution Still in Danger: An Exchange
August 16, 1990
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How Not to Deal with the Iran-Contra Crimes
June 14, 1990
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Was There a Missing Witness?
May 31, 1990
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‘The Constitution in Danger’: An Exchange
May 17, 1990
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Did Noriega Declare War?
March 29, 1990
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The Constitution in Danger
March 1, 1990
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Revelations of the North Trial
August 17, 1989
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Truth about Ghorbanifar
April 27, 1989
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‘Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story’: An Exchange
March 2, 1989
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Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story
January 19, 1989
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, 19841988 by Jane Mayer, by Doyle McManus
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More Eitingon Mystery
August 18, 1988
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‘The Mystery of Max Eitingon’: An Exchange
June 16, 1988
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The Mystery of Max Eitingon
April 14, 1988
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Public Diplomacy
March 31, 1988
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An Autopsy
December 17, 1987
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The Fall of an American Junta
October 22, 1987
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The Rise of the American Junta
October 8, 1987
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American Hubris: From Truman to the Persian Gulf
July 16, 1987
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Reagan’s Junta
April 23, 1987
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Reagan’s Junta
January 29, 1987
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The Fate of Poland
November 20, 1986
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Eisenhower’s War: The Final Crisis
October 23, 1986
Eisenhower: At War, 19431945 by David Eisenhower
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Eisenhower’s War-II
October 9, 1986
Eisenhower: At War, 19431945 by David Eisenhower
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Eisenhower’s War
September 25, 1986
Eisenhower: At War, 19431945 by David Eisenhower
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Yalta & the Fate of Poland: An Exchange
August 14, 1986
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A Comment
May 29, 1986
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Neoconservative History: An Exchange
April 24, 1986
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Neoconservative History
January 16, 1986
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Communism Re-Revisited
September 26, 1985
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Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
August 15, 1985
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The Popular Front Revisited
May 30, 1985
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
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American Communism Revisited
May 9, 1985
Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War
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
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Pie in the Sky
February 14, 1985
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Rhineland
August 16, 1984
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‘Nuclear Temptations’: An Exchange
May 31, 1984
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An Exchange on Dominoes
March 15, 1984
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Nuclear Temptations
January 19, 1984
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Falling Dominoes
October 27, 1983
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On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense
August 18, 1983
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On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense
August 18, 1983
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Dear Mr. Weinberger An Open Reply to an Open Letter
November 4, 1982
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‘How Not to Think About Nuclear War’: An Exchange
September 23, 1982
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How Not to Think About Nuclear War
July 15, 1982
“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
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Kissinger’s Mentor
November 30, 1972
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Exchange on Black Nationalism
December 3, 1970
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Writing Black History
July 2, 1970
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An Exchange on Black History
May 21, 1970
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The Father of American Black Nationalism
March 12, 1970
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How Not to Negotiate
July 13, 1967
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A Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Not to Negotiate
May 4, 1967
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Haunting
December 1, 1966
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Research
September 8, 1966
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Marxism
October 28, 1965
