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

by Michael Kimmage

The Conservative Turn tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation.

A spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Chambers became the main witness in the 1948 trial of Alger Hiss,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032586
• ISBN13: 9780674032583
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"