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Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir, by Carl Bernstein (Simon & Schuster, 262 pp., $18.95)

Nothing quite puts the damper on a happy boyhood like seeing your mother exposed as a Communist on the front page of the local paper. That’s what happened to Carl Bernstein in 1954, when he was ten. The picture showed Sylvia Bernstein being sworn in before the House Un-American Activities Committee, with the headline “D.C. Housewife Takes Fifth.”

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Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir, by Carl Bernstein (Simon & Schuster, 262 pp., $18.95)

Nothing quite puts the damper on a happy boyhood like seeing your mother exposed as a Communist on the front page of the local paper. That’s what happened to Carl Bernstein in 1954, when he was ten. The picture showed Sylvia Bernstein being sworn in before the House Un-American Activities Committee, with the headline “D.C. Housewife Takes Fifth.”