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The Conservative Turn : Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (436 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054127
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Conservative TurnDDC classification:
  • 818/.5209
LOC classification:
  • PS3539
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sons of the Bourgeoisie: Portrait of Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers as Young Men -- 2. Red Years in the Red Decade: Pursuing Soviet Alternatives -- 3. Kronstadt: The Break -- 4. First Steps in an Anti-Stalinist World -- 5. Toward an Anti-Communism of the Left and an Anti-Communism of the Right -- 6. Fictional Anti-Communism: Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey -- 7. Witness: The Trial of Whittaker Chambers -- 8. Conservatism and the Anti-Communist Self -- 9. The Establishment of an Anti-Communist Intelligentsia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Kimmage tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent careers of these two men exemplify the emergence of modern conservatism and the rise of moderate liberalism.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sons of the Bourgeoisie: Portrait of Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers as Young Men -- 2. Red Years in the Red Decade: Pursuing Soviet Alternatives -- 3. Kronstadt: The Break -- 4. First Steps in an Anti-Stalinist World -- 5. Toward an Anti-Communism of the Left and an Anti-Communism of the Right -- 6. Fictional Anti-Communism: Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey -- 7. Witness: The Trial of Whittaker Chambers -- 8. Conservatism and the Anti-Communist Self -- 9. The Establishment of an Anti-Communist Intelligentsia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Kimmage tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent careers of these two men exemplify the emergence of modern conservatism and the rise of moderate liberalism.

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