Suchergebnisse

Looks to develop a typology of anti-leaders & discusses how one becomes an anti-leader, focusing on the history & careers of Adlai Stevenson and Joseph McCarthy. In the case of Stevenson, his years as US Ambassador to the UN are examined; for McCarthy, the five years during which he grew an "-ism" are explored. Adapted from the source document.

'The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory' by Derek Leebaert is reviewed.

A. James Gregor's 'The Two Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century' is reviewed.

Beichman reviews 'Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer' by Norman Podhoretz.

THE ECONOMIC FAILURE, SOCIAL SQUALOR, POLITICAL TYRANNY, AND BRUTAL MILITARISM OF THE SOVIET UNION HAVE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN INTELLIGENT AND SENSITIVE PERSON TO ACCEPT THE STRAIGHTFORWARD LABEL OF COMMUNIST. THOSE WHO USED TO BE CALLED THE RIGHT LEFT PEOPLE NOW FEEL IT NECESSARY TO QUALIFY THIS COMMITMENT IN SOME WAY. HENCE WE SEE THE RISE OF THE HYPHENATED COMMUNIST.