CSPAN2 Book TV January 13, 2013
Because this work is clearly a classic in my mind and that of many others. And a test of the classic is whether it remains relevant with the changing times and changing cultures. If it can do that, then it can find its way continually in the world of great folks. And certainly, this has all of the elements of it, many of them really quite strange and almost mythological, this strange matter of Lionel Trilling writing in the journey before witness comes out, book about Whittaker Chambers, in which literary critics find the alger hiss character, but trilling never knew alger hiss. A strange kind...