Debate over Whittaker Chambers: Salon.com 10/14

Whittaker Chambers’ grandson David  says “Dr. Jon Wiener needs to set some facts straight”  in his article at Salon.com about visiting the Pumpkin Patch National Historic Landmark . . . .
And Dr. Wiener replies, “Readers can be assured I did indeed visit the site.”
. . . continued at Salon.com HERE

 

Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: 1960 Politics – HuffPost 10/8

Gore Vidal was not just a novelist and essayist; he also ran for Congress in 1960 in upstate New York. In a 1988 interview I asked him whether there was any gay-baiting in that campaign.

“Even then it was considered bad karma to fuck around with old Gore,” he told me. . .

. . . continued at the Huffington Post HERE