<html> At 11:13 AM 9/15/02 -0700, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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 <a href="http://www.frenchculture.org/books/release/history/furet.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.frenchculture.org/books/release/history/furet.html</a> , John Patrick Diggins quotes Eugene circa '69 on anti-war hippies, "Stalin would have known what to do with them." Michael Pugliese</blockquote> 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</html>