false 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 202884 John V. Fleming 1 1 4 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 22:52:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:00:49 -0700 2009 Darkness at Noon, which I haven't read since high school, but which he made me want to pick up and perhaps teach, and possibly Chambers' Witness, which he argues, convincingly, is a theologically serious and literarily successful creation that is also quite entertaining in its writerly flourishes and character sketches. (The subject is also taken un in Susan Jacoby's annoyingly breezy book on the case, though it does make the for me useful point that the discussion is over, even lefties like Maurice Isserman having said so.) The other two books I'd never heard of, though at least one of them sounds pretty interesting as well--if, at 750 pages, loong. The whole thing is witty, uncommonly intelligent in its analysis, engaging in its recreation of the literary worlds and battles sketched here, and sometimes very funny. Highly recommended.]]>