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...vivant, dashing in tweeds, with wavy hair and eyes as soulful as a bandleader's. Kluger also provides a contrapuntal portrait of John W. Davis, who ran for the Democrats against Calvin Coolidge in 1924. A brilliant lawyer who served as counsel to Eugene Debs, Alger Hiss and Robert Oppenheimer, Davis was also what Kluger calls a "gentleman racist." At 80, wearing a cutaway, he appeared before the Supreme Court defending segregation by ingenious psychological and legal arguments...
...Irons only looks up those cases that interest him. One of Irons's main research projects right now is an investigation of the Alger Hiss case. Irons's interest grew out of his doctoral research, when he found some files in a library in the midwest that mentioned Hiss. Irons followed the discovery up with interviews, and research into the Hiss case is now a major part of his life. He says he is "almost--not quite" positive that Hiss was innocent of the charges of espionage and perjury for which he was convicted, and the law student filed...
...Hiss, like Irons, is still waiting for his own suit to be heard in court. "Peter came up last summer with two major pieces of evidence in the case," Hiss says. "He's not the kind of researcher who writes letters to institutions, he actually goes there and gets the stuff himself. I'm very fortunate he's one of the researchers working on my case...
Irons is involved in other activities outside the Law School besides the Hiss case. He is director of a university without walls program in Boston, part of UMass-Amherst. He teaches a course on the American socialist movement there, but plans to resign in January to become more of a full-time law student. He is also the chairman of the New England branch of the Committee to Repeal Repressive Legislation...
...Titled The Middle of the Journey, the book described the intellectual torture of a Communist in the process of quitting the party. Reviews which praised its "assurance, literacy and intelligence" aroused the interest of FBI agents investigating Whittaker Chambers' allegations of spying by State Department Official Alger Hiss. Indeed Trilling had shared a class with Chambers when both were Columbia students, and he frankly admitted fictionalizing Chambers' story in his novel. But when Hiss's lawyers asked him to testify against Chambers, he refused...