Biographies - Powerline points us

Biographies - Powerline points us at excellent piece in Human Events Online, "Ten American Biographies Everyone Should Read".

It's a treasure trove of great reading. In particular, I noticed it cites Witness by Whittaker Chambers. It's blurbed as follows:

Chambers details his own career as a Soviet spy, and his involvement in bringing fellow spy Alger Hiss to justice. Chambers repented of his Communism and later became a Christian and patriotic American. A former editor at Time, Chambers portrayed the Cold War as a moral struggle between two irreconcilable world views: an atheistic view, in which man made up his own rules; and a religious view, in which God set rules that man was bound to obey. This construction had great influence on Ronald Reagan, who cited Chambers at length in his famous Evil Empire speech. Chambers also pointed out that Western liberals have basically the same amoral worldview as the Communists. "In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return," wrote Chambers. "I began to break away from communism and to climb from deep within its underground, where for six years I had been buried, back into the world of free men."

Read the list - I plan on hitting the library for several of these over the winter, unless one of you beats me to them.

(Via Powerline)

Posted by Mitch at November 21, 2003 06:00 AM