Tidal Wave

Victor Davis Hanson is a man of many parts. For five grim years he and his brothers did their best to make a profit growing grapes to dry and sell to Sun- Maid. When the California raisin industry went belly-up in 1983, Hanson returned to an old interest of his: the classics. In 1984 he founded a classics program at California State University in Fresno, where he taught the subject for nearly 20 years. He also began turning out books—among them The Western Way of War (1989), on ancient Greek infantrymen.

Mr, Rusher, a former publisher of National Review, is a syndicated columnist

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Victor Davis Hanson is a man of many parts. For five grim years he and his brothers did their best to make a profit growing grapes to dry and sell to Sun- Maid. When the California raisin industry went belly-up in 1983, Hanson returned to an old interest of his: the classics. In 1984 he founded a classics program at California State University in Fresno, where he taught the subject for nearly 20 years. He also began turning out books—among them The Western Way of War (1989), on ancient Greek infantrymen.

Mr, Rusher, a former publisher of National Review, is a syndicated columnist