THE telephone call came in from a man who could not control his sobbing, and didn’t want to do so. Marvin Liebman was dead. He had been taken to the hospital after heart palpitations on Sunday night and, in the late morning, died. He was 73.
Marvin (his close friends could not otherwise refer to him) had several careers. As a very young man he was a Communist. Discharged from the army, he volunteered to work for Israel, risking his life in episodes chronicled in his autobiography, Coming Out Conservative, published in 1992. He was still very young when disenchantment quite overtook him, and soon he was looking for opportunities to oppose Communism.
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