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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2009.
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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.