FANTASTIC !!
It is so nice to have these finally come out on DVD. Thank you Stanford! This is a particularly good episode in which an academic/political fraud is revealed and proved. Compare "Firing Line" to ANY talk show on the air today and you'll see why it was so revered. THANK YOU WHOEVER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING THESE DVD'S TO MARKET! And thank you Amazon for carrying them.
Intellectually Stimulating
So happy to see the "Firing Line" series available to stream. Truly miss Mr. Buckley. He of all journalists left us wanting more. I had to pause this particular episode to review the history of Alger Hiss and Chambers. Buckley always had the most interesting guests and topics. He also knew enough to pose the questions and then sit back and let his guests respond. The history behind this topic is so intriguing that it makes you want to learn more about McCarthy. This show is worth viewing more than once.
If you have heard of the Hiss case but don't know a lot about it watch this show
The wonderfully named Alger Hiss and the conservative Icon Whittaker Chambers locked in battle at a key moment of the Cold War and Chamber's Witness helped turned the tide of opinion in favor of resisting and then defeating Soviet Communism. It is one of the most critical battles of the Cold War and yet few of us can remember it and fewer still of my generation or younger know much about it. This program is a great primer into that great historical event will inform of the fact that Alger Hiss and his friends were spies for the Soviet Union and did great damage in to the US in the name of communism. If you do not know much about this event you owe to yourself and to America to learn about it this great battle of the Cold War and how it was nearly loss but for the brave and often times lonely witness of Whittaker Chambers.
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