From: Joe Sobran
The other day I went back to the bookstore where, some months ago, I found Richard Rovere’s scandalously annotated copy of Burnham’s Suicide of the West. This time I found Rovere’s old copy of Sidney Hook’s Heresy, Yes—Conspiracy, No. I flipped through it, my heart pounding; but alas, no kinky marginalia, no scoop for us. The reason is probably that the book dates from the heyday of Senator Joe McCarthy, when it was dangerous even to read books, and positively foolhardy to mark them.
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