Constant Rebel
Lamont, Corliss
BOOKS BRIEFLY Constant Rebel investigations, the U.S. Passport Office, and other agents of repression. More than a quarter century ago, Lamont wrote, "As we grow older, we dissenters should grow...
...For we who have lived half a century or more have already had a most interesting and varied existence, with probably a great deal of personal happiness and fulfillment...
...21.95...
...In 1924, Corliss Lamont, scion of a wealthy family associated with J.P...
...No dictator, no powerful demagogue, no tyrannical government can take away our past...
...414 pp...
...More than a quarter century ago, Lamont wrote, "As we grow older, we dissenters should grow more militant rather than more timorous about the fundamental issues...
...These are the thoughtful reflections of a citizen deeply committed to rational discourse—and to action...
...At age eighty-six, Lamont has compiled his writings on issues of war and peace, civil liberties, and philosophy—he is president emeritus of the American Humanist Association—consisting principally of the Basic Pamphlets he has issued occasionally for many decades...
...Lamont's suggested speakers—they were not invited—set off a raging controversy, the first of many in which he would take vigorous part during a remarkable lifetime of bold dissent...
...but the important thing is that, no matter what the personal cost, we should continue to resist evil men and evil institutions so long as our hearts go on beating...
...In that capacity, he proposed an extraordinary slate of Harvard lecturers: William Z. Foster, who had led the great steelworkers' strike of 1920 and later became head of the U.S...
...Words to live by...
...Eugene V. Debs, who was still serving a Federal prison sentence for speaking out against World War I, and radical economist Scott Nearing...
...Morgan's banking empire, was the undergraduate head of the Harvard Union...
...True, they may interfere with our future...
...A LIFETIME OF DISSENT by Corliss Lamont Prometheus Books...
...Included is the record of Lamont's valiant defiance of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the McCarthy...
...Communist Party...
...This is certainly true of myself...
Vol. 53 • February 1989 • No. 2
