HISTORIAN LOUIS M. HACKER'S "COINCIDENTAL CONVERSION" TO THE TRUTH.
From: The Historian
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Date: 9/22/1998
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Author: ZEMAN, SCOTT C.
Historian Louis M. Hacker (1899-1987) began as a Marxist scholar, but followed an intellectual trajectory toward conservatism when Marxist predictions of the collapse of capitalism were unrealized after the Great Depression. Hacker published 'The Triumph of American Capitalism' in 1940. Hacker's role in American historiography has been largely forgotten, in part because he is not easy to label, but he deserves to be remembered as an innovative historian.
The name Louis Morton Hacker ...
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