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Article: My Lunch With Alger: Oh No, Not Hiss Again!(Politics&Opinions)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2001
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Byline: Ron Rosenbaum
"Good Lord deliver us," the incomparable Murray Kempton once wrote. "Everyone seems to be talking about Alger Hiss again."
That was 1978. That was after three decades of interminable, tendentious arguments over the Alger Hiss case. And now, a quarter-century later, good Lord deliver us (and this time for real, please), they're still talking about Alger Hiss.
I've tried to stay away, I really have--but like Al Pacino in Godfather III (underrated, I think), they're pullin' me back in. It's one of the eternal schisms in American culture--and I think I have a new perspective on that to add.
It's been more than a half ...