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To Be a Pilgrim |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Franz M. Oppenheimer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,891 Words, 12,117 Characters |
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WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
A Biography
Sam Tanenhaus
New York: Random House, 1997
638 pp., $35.00
In late summer of 1948 a young, unknown, freshman congressman, Richard Nixon, persisted in investigating what at first seemed a highly improbable tale. His determination made him a national figure and, ultimately, president of the United States. The improbable tale was told in testimony of one Whittaker Chambers before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), testimony that initiated a chain of events that eventually aroused the American Establishment to a passionate taking of sides: for and against Chambers.
Outside intellectual literary circles in Manhattan, where he was known as an exceptionally able writer, a senior editor of Time magazine, and a former commu...
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...ssentially correct. In retrospect, the liberal blindness to the Soviet threat and the stubborn media defense of Hiss foreshadowed current blindness to the threat to our civilization posed by multiculturism, cultural illiteracy, and moral agnosticism. With that perspective, Sam Tanenhaus' masterpiece can be read not only as that of an admirable pilgrim's progress but also as a cautionary tale.
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