Part of Our Time

Master journalist Murray Kempton re-creates an era when many believed that the only hope for America's future lay in violent revolution. Writing as both a radical and a skeptic, Kempton looks back--from the vantage of the very un-revolutionary 1950s--on the tangled affairs of Alger Hiss and Whittake [...]
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Master journalist Murray Kempton re-creates an era when many believed that the only hope for America's future lay in violent revolution. Writing as both a radical and a skeptic, Kempton looks back--from the vantage of the very un-revolutionary 1950s--on the tangled affairs of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, the Hollywood Ten, and Paul Robeson, considering overly idealistic revolutionaries and others who were all too willing to switch sides. A historical investigation with contemporary resonance, "Part of Our Time makes it clear that meaningful and lasting resistance to power begins with distrust of one's best intentions.