¹ Capper's role in organizing this march is mentioned by Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS: The Rise and Development of the Students for a Democratic Society (New York, 1973), 115.

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³ That summer of 1966 Capper and a collaborator had published an SDS pamphlet being widely circulated on the Berkeley campus as soon as the fall semester began; Sy Landy and Charles Capper, In Defense of Black Power (n.p., Independent Socialist Club, 1966). Rorabaugh, W. J., Berkeley at War: the 1960s (New York, 1990), 91Google Scholar, correctly identifies Capper as an SDS activist and a prominent Berkeley radical but mistakenly represents him as having already been at Berkeley before he helped to organize the early 1965 antiwar march in Washington.

⁴ Both Capper and I wrote obituaries for May when he died in 2012: Capper's is https://s-usih.org/2012/10/henry-may-in-his-times-by-charles-capper and mine is “In Memoriam: Henry F. May (1915–2012),” Perspectives on History (Dec. 2012).

⁵ The Independent Socialist Club was solidly “Shachtmanite,” as one of the two major traditions in American Trotskyism has been labeled since 1940. Max Shachtman and James Cannon led the factions that split the Socialist Worker's Party in that year when the “Cannonites,” like Trotsky himself, supported the Soviet Union in its invasion of Finland following the Nazi–Soviet Pact of 1939, while the “Shachtmanites” repudiated the invasion even while maintaining opposition to Finland's military ally, Hitler's Germany. By the 1960s other issues divided the two factions, too, but the division remained sharp. The Independent Socialist Club was by far the most important Trotskyist organization on campus, and played a large role in the Berkeley antiwar movement even though the aged Shachtman himself had become a centrist and refused to advocate an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. The smaller Cannonite group on campus, also active in antiwar activities, was led by Peter Camejo, also a history graduate student. Camejo later left the Socialist Worker's Party for the Green Party and was the vice presidential candidate for Ralph Nader's presidential bid of 2004.

⁶ Charles Capper, “History Today: Notes of a Prodigal Graduate Student,” Perspectives on History (Dec. 1984), 12–13.

⁷ Megan Marshall, “Let Them Be Sea-Captains,” London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2007, 16. Marshall, who six years later would publish her own excellent biography, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Boston, 2013), made this observation in an admiring review of the second volume of Capper's biography. The title for Marshall's review is taken from the single most widely quoted utterance of Fuller's concerning the role of women in society, “But if you ask me what offices they may fill; I reply—any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea-captains, if you will.”

⁸ Capper, Charles, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, 2 vols. (New York, 1992–2007)Google Scholar. The first volume carries the subtitle The Private Years, and the second The Public Years. The first volume was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 1993. Of the many appreciative reviews, perhaps the most authoritative and discerning is the pair of essay reviews contributed to New Republic by historian Christine Stansell, “The New England Sphinx,” New Republic, 21 June 1993, 40–42, and “A Noble Career,” New Republic, 26 March 2008, 51–5. For other carefully argued examples see Bell Gale Chevigny's pair of reviews, “Transcendental Meditations,” Nation, 4 Oct. 1993, 357–60, and “The Universe Was Her Oyster,” Women's Review of Books, July–Aug. 2008, 27–9; and the detailed essay review of both volumes by Phyllis Cole, “Fuller's Transatlantic Life,” Nineteenth-Century Prose, Fall 2008, 183–94. Later students of Fuller's life and career routinely acknowledge the monumental character of Capper's research and the perspicacity of his analysis. A 2013 commentary on the many recent books on Fuller voiced the consensus that Capper's work “has never been surpassed as a social history of the period” and that it excels in “elegance and dispassion” and in “tough-mindedness.” See Judith Thurman, “An Unfinished Woman: The Desires of Margaret Fuller,” New Yorker, 1 April 2013, 75–81.

⁹ Capper, Fuller, 2: 320–497.

¹⁰ Stansell, “A Noble Career,” 54.

¹¹ Capper, Fuller, 1: xi.

¹² Ibid.

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