For the two most recent editions of the textbook (9th ed., 2001 10th ed., 2007) Lloyd Kramer, chair of the History Department at the University of North Carolina, was added as a new co-author after the aged Professor Palmer withdrew Palmer died in 2002.Īmong other professional activities Mr. 250) writes that his protagonist, when interrupted by his agitated wife while he is reading in his library, 'puts down his book, Palmer and Colton, the fifth edition' to listen to her recounting of the murder she has witnessed. Ross Thomas in The Fourth Durango (Mysterious Press, 1989, p. Palmer and Joel Colton on modern Europe, can shaped the vision of a whole generation and it is there fore very important that the textbooks used in schools and colleges be accurate, up-to-date, fair-minded, intelligent, and written in such a manner as to stimulate curiosity.' The New York Times educational supplement, Education Life, on August 2, 1987, included the book in 'A List of the Best,' a description of nineteen college textbooks in all disciplines 'considered classics in their fields.' Eric Hobsbawm in his The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (1995) referred his readers to its 'excellent bibliographies.' Even a detective novel found occasion to mention it. Alfred Knopf, who took a special interest in the book, reprinted in the then Knopf house organ, teh Borzoi Quarterly, the blooper in the British magazine Encounter that read: 'The modern novel has been in a serious crisis ever since James Joyce's monumental effort to narrate a day in the life of Leon Blum.' Knopf in 1966, with a French translation following in 1968 published by Fayard, and a second edition and new forward published by Duke University Press in 1987.
Close to a half century later, in 1999, Osaka University in Japan published a Japanese translation of the monograph in a series described as 'notable books on France and Spain in the 1930s.' His second book, more broadly focused on the 1930s, was Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics, published by Alfred A. His first historical publication, Compulsory Labor Arbitration in France, 1936-1939 (Columbia UP, 1951), an outgrowth of his dissertation, received favorable reviews in this country and in Europe. After the war he resumed his graduate work, began teaching at Duke in 1947, and received his Ph.D.
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