Bøger af Michael Holzman

Anti-Communism was part of the persistent American populist tradition, an instrument ready at hand for the use of corporations against unions, Republicans against the New Deal, segregationists against African Americans. As Robert Ivie pointed out, "The nation's adversary is characterized as a mortal threat to freedom, a germ infecting the body politic, a plague upon the liberty of humankind, and a barbarian intent upon destroying civilization." The language of Anti-Communism, even in the absence of Communism itself, is still present in American English, laying ready at hand to be put to new uses by politicians and others to proclaim the urgent need to sacrifice civil liberties in the cause of national security.

Transgressions is a novel in the form of a diary of a young man from Woodstock, Vermont, who is sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, in the early 1930s. He studies languages, history and art, travels in Europe and settles in London. During the Second World War he writes political and current events commentaries. The book contains explicit descriptions of sexual acts and fine and decorative art objects.

How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy, in the Second World War and Cold War