I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed John
Fleming's _The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold
War_, published in 2009. The John V. Fleming site is devoted to the book.
Professor Fleming compiles reviews and comments genially on them here.
Norman Podhoretz invoked the metaphor of _The Bloody Crossroads_ to title his
study of the intersection of literature and politics in some notable modern
works. Fleming returns to "the bloody crossroads," but narrows the scope to
study the four most popular anti-Communist works published in the United
States. Each of the four books covered by Fleming conveys the experience of
Communism from the inside.
A propos of one of the four books, Fleming writes: "Normal history is suspect
because it is written by the winners. The history of left-wing literature in
America...is suspect because it was written by the losers, most of them sore
losers at that." Professor emeritus of literature at Princeton, Fleming means
to rescue what is in his hands a remarkable piece of literary history through
meticulous historical reconstruction. He performs the rescue with passion,
style, and wit.
The fourth of the four books ...
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