National Review, April 10th, 1987
Lillian Hellman,
by William Wright (Simon& Schuster, 507 pp., $18.95)
LILLIAN HELLMAN was the Stalinists'dreamgirl. A pathological liar, she became the exemplar of truth to liberal society. A physical coward, she played the bold heroine. Avaricious herself, she flayed American society for its "materialism.' A despiser of liberals, she became the liberals' darling. She never really criticized the Soviets. Except Khrushchev, that is, whom she detested for questioning Statlin. In 1967 she finally admitted that Stalin had committed "sins.' But she was not against sinning: During a 1966 trip to...
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