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Introduction 1
1 Sons of the Bourgeoisie: Portrait of Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers as Young Men 15
2 Red Years in the Red Decade: Pursuing Soviet Alternatives 46
3 Kronstadt: The Break 78
4 First Steps in an Anti-Stalinist World 109
5 Toward all Anti-Communism of the Left and an Anti-Communism of the Right 140
6 Fictional Anti-Communism: Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey 173
7 Witness: The Trial of Whittaker Chambers 203
8 Conservatism and the Anti-Communist Self 236
9 The Establishment of an Anti-Communist Intelligentsia 268
Epilogue 303
Notes 315
Index 411
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Jack Behnen
reviewed The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism on December 15, 2012
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism
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 other horrors of Stalinism, and the subsequent decline of intellectual leftism in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s. Kimmage is also quite insightful about the seemingly tortured and duplicitous life of Whitaker Chambers, including his ties to Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy and others.
This particular ideological history is much more relevant than the shallow leftism of the 1960s in understanding the contemporary politics of American "conservatism", and the divide between blue states and red states.
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