The Founding Editors

In undertaking to write a few words on the principal figures during the early years of national review, all of them senior editors, I must warn that what I write is highly subjective, and that these little sketches are not to be understood to presume to serve as resumes, however truncated, of the careers of those I write about, namely William Schlamm, Willmoore Kendall, Frank Meyer, Whittaker Chambers, James Burnham, and Priscilla Buckley.

Willi Schlamm