Why Writers Turned to Communism Then Left It
James Marlow surveys The God That Failed noting six authors who joined Communist movements or sympathized, then withdrew. Richard Wright and Louis Fischer are the only Americans. Koestler Silone Spender Gide are others. Wright’s insight into Soviet Communism contrasts with Gide’s self-critique and the book argues Communism under Soviet leadership robs freedom and integrity.
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James Marlow
Washington
Richard Wright
Alabama
Louis Fischer
N. Wright
Fischer
Arthur Koestler
Germany
Hitler
Ignazio Silone
Mussolini
Stephen Spender
Andre Gide
Silone
Wright
Ates
Chicago
American Communist Party
Bry
Koestler
John C Calhoun portrait noted in Coit biography
A review of Margaret L. Coit’s John C Calhoun American Portrait (Houghton Mifflin) traces Calhoun’s SC frontier origins 1782 Yale education and Litchfield Law School early political rise in 1807 and his Jeffersonian view of secession and state-based compromises as lessons for larger national issues.
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W. G. Rodgers
John C. Calhoun
Margaret L. Coit
Houghton Mifflin
Calhoun
South Carolina
Yale
Litchfield Law School
Thomas Jefferson
Calhoun: A Great But Controversial American Statesman
The piece surveys John C Calhoun as a pivotal but divisive figure in U S history. It notes his roles as Senator Secretary of War State and vice president and ties his legacy to the slavery question and secession. It contrasts praise from Miss Coit with Wiltse and argues his brilliance outshone practical politics.
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Washington
United States
Florida
Texas
Oregon
Mexico
Calhoun
Jackson
Miss Coit
Wiltse
Definition of finagle
The term finagle means to achieve one s purpose by artifice or trickery. It is presented as a variant of fain algue with meanings connected to revocation at card or shrinking, described as originally dialectical English.
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