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The Conservative Turn tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation.
A spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Cham ...more
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Hardcover, 419 pages
Published
March 1st 2009
by Harvard University Press
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Much more enjoyable than most history books I've come across, and making me tremendously more knowledgeable about mid-twentieth century politics than I've ever been before, this book is an interesting examination of the evolution of the American view of Communism by examining the parallel careers of Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Trilling is a complicator of the liberal intellectual mindset such that by the end of his life he was being suspected as a conservative (he's a great writer wh
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Not exactly a page-turner and very uneven. In fact, I put it down several times not intending to go back, but I did and it was worth it.
If you are (or were) a liberal anti-communist, born after about 1940 and living in the U.S., you were probably influenced by Lionel Trilling whether or not you realized it. Kimmage offers some useful insights, his connection to leftist circles in the 1920s, his (and others') "conservative turn" away from communism in the wake of the Moscow Trials and all the ot ...more
If you are (or were) a liberal anti-communist, born after about 1940 and living in the U.S., you were probably influenced by Lionel Trilling whether or not you realized it. Kimmage offers some useful insights, his connection to leftist circles in the 1920s, his (and others') "conservative turn" away from communism in the wake of the Moscow Trials and all the ot ...more
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