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The conservative turn : Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the lessons of anti-communism /

The Conservative Turn tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kimmage, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; v. 165.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sons of the bourgeoisie : portrait of Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers as young men
  • Red years in the red decade : pursuing Soviet alternatives
  • Kronstadt : the break
  • First steps in an anti-Stalinist world
  • Toward an anti-communism of the left and an anti-communism of the right
  • Fictional anti-communism : Lionel Trilling's The middle of the journey
  • Witness : the trial of Whittaker Chambers
  • Conservatism and the anti-communist self
  • The establishment of an anti-communist intelligentsia.