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The Oldest Dead White European Males, by Bernard Knox (Norton, 144 pp., $15.95)

BERNARD KNOX was born in England, matriculated at Cambridge in 1933 and started reading for the Classical Tripos, but dropped out in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigade. Seriously wounded in the defense of Madrid, he returned to England, cured of any sympathy with Communism by his contact with some of its believers. Married to the gifted American novelist Bianca Vanorden, he emigrated to the United States, and greatly distinguished himself in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. After the war he obtained his doctorate at Yale, and taught there until, in 1961, he became the first director of the Center of Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

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The Oldest Dead White European Males, by Bernard Knox (Norton, 144 pp., $15.95)

BERNARD KNOX was born in England, matriculated at Cambridge in 1933 and started reading for the Classical Tripos, but dropped out in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War with the International Brigade. Seriously wounded in the defense of Madrid, he returned to England, cured of any sympathy with Communism by his contact with some of its believers. Married to the gifted American novelist Bianca Vanorden, he emigrated to the United States, and greatly distinguished himself in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. After the war he obtained his doctorate at Yale, and taught there until, in 1961, he became the first director of the Center of Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.