Sycophant-in-Chief
Clarence Brown, 12 December 1996
Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg
by Joshua Rubenstein.
Tauris, 482 pp., £19.50, July 1996,1 85043 998 2 Show More
by Joshua Rubenstein.
Tauris, 482 pp., £19.50, July 1996,
“... shouldered the lifelong burden of always being blamed by somebody, somewhere, for something.’ Joshua Rubenstein shows flair in taking this as the epigraph for his book, and so acknowledging the magnitude of his task. Two obstacles face anyone wishing to deal with the life of Ehrenburg. One is the obstacle of righteousness: to suppose that in his ... ”