5. Radosh seems to think any contextualizing of violence is a justification of violence -- which would make writing history impossible.
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6. Contextualizing rise of Hitler with talk of Versailles treaty & 1920s inflation isn't justifying Nazism. Does this need to be said?
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7. Radosh: "Judis is anything but a historian. Those of us who labor in that profession – as does this writer – seek to explore the past..."
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8. "order to unearth the truth, and to understand what happened within the context of the period. That is not what Judis does in his book."
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9. "Rather, Judis is an example of the kind of “historian” who uses history to “prove” a preconceived viewpoint."
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10. What makes this laughable is idea that Radosh's own historical writing (some of which is excellent) isn't fueled by present politics.
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11. Radosh's early work grew out of New Left, his middle period work out of Cold War liberalism, his latest out of Israeli nationalism.
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12. Which is not to say Radosh isn't a good historian -- he often is (although I haven't read most recent work). But so is Judis.
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13. Unless they are antiquarian drudges, all historians are shaped by present politics.
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14. Judis is a journalist by profession but his histories don't suffer from shallowness of journalistic histories. They are serious books.
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15. Judis' biography of William F. Buckley is one of the essential books on the American right, much cited in the academic literature.
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16. Fact Radosh resorted to churlish craft pride shows how few arguments he has against Judis.
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