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That Only America Could Have Produced: Chambers, Schlesinger, Nixon, and Hiss
Liberty Island Magazine ^ | July 14th, 2020 | Scott Seward Smith

Posted on 09/19/2020 8:18:12 PM PDT by tbw2

Among the multitudes that America used to contain were Whittaker Chambers and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

A few months ago I happened to reread both Chambers’ autobiography Witness and Schlesinger’s Journals 1952-2000 one after the other. These two men are of different generations: Chambers lived from 1901 to 1961 and Schlesinger 1917 to 2007. They are of completely different temperaments, milieus, politics, and tastes.

But there are some fascinating overlaps that have some bearing on the difficult passage we are traversing today as a nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at libertyislandmag.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: algerhiss; america; arthurschlesingerjr; history; nixon; richardmilhousnixon; richardmnixon; richardnixon; whittakerchambers
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To: tbw2

What a topic sentence. Sorry, but the end of journalism as a profession has given rise to internet writers whose articles are not copyedited. This is one of several in the last week. Couldn’t get past the lede.


21 posted on 09/20/2020 7:41:20 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and forests.)
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To: Gene Eric; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Gee, I’ve always thought of Mad Max as a male of the species. So ya think it’s M.C.? Was a great story anyways!


22 posted on 09/20/2020 7:48:20 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and forests!)
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