Anniversary

[Cliff Staples]

At 11:13 AM 9/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Doug>...and when Eugene Genovese famously said he'd welcome a VC
>victory, he was right...
>
>    That was in '65 when he taught at Rutgers. Bacame an issue in that 
> yrs. gubernatorial race. By '69,
>Genovese at the AHA convention was opposing the anti-war slate of 
>Staughton Lynd. "Put them down!,"said
>Eugene. (See Peter Novick's brilliant book on US historiography and 
>objectivity.)
>   In the latest National Interest in a piece on Eric Foner and F. Furet
>http://www.frenchculture.org/books/release/history/furet.html , John 
>Patrick Diggins quotes Eugene
>circa '69 on anti-war hippies, "Stalin would have known what to do with them."
>Michael Pugliese

What is the latest on Genovese anyway?  Last year I saw him on TV (C-SPAN?) 
speaking at some Catholic College and sounding rather, well, 
Catholic.  He's an interesting character.

Cliff
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