Labour/Le Travail, September 22nd, 1998
(New York: Random House 1997).
IN THE INTRODUCTION to the 1997 edition of his book on the Hiss-Chambers case, Allen Weinstein notes that the story of the two men is so bizarre and fantastic it should be written by a novelist. Actually, I have always envisioned it as an opera. Such scenes as the moment when Hiss confronts Chambers before HUAC and asks to see his teeth simply demand a musical setting. Imagine the trio: Hiss singing, "Will you open your mouth," Chambers replying, "You know me, Alger," and Nixon intoning sotto voce, "This will make my career."
Though neither a librettist nor a...
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