Scammell

I'm pleased to report that the Keynote Conversation between US Poet Laureate Charles Simic and Professor Michael Scammell is now available online as a podcast.

Marginally Medieval, More Medieval and Most Medieval Mary Kate Hurley 2008

I'm pleased to report that the Keynote Conversation between US Poet Laureate Charles Simic and Professor Michael Scammell is now available online as a podcast.

Archive 2008-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

Scammell is not quite in his depth here: he conflates the Stern gang and the Irgun and gives superficial treatment (as he also does, bizarrely, to Koestler’s part in producing The God That Failed) to a subsequent book, The Thirteenth Tribe.

The Zealot 2009

Scammell is not quite in his depth here: he conflates the Stern gang and the Irgun and gives superficial treatment (as he also does, bizarrely, to Koestler’s part in producing The God That Failed) to a subsequent book, The Thirteenth Tribe.

The Zealot 2009

Scammell does his best to plead extenuation here, but is obviously uncomfortable.

The Zealot 2009

For instance, Koestler was unusual in retaining what Michael Scammell calls “fond memories” of the 1919 Communist putsch in Hungary, a botched and bloody business that led many people to actually welcome the advent of the vengeful right as a deliverance.

The Zealot 2009

After battling this and other contradictions, as Scammell records, “Koestler seemed to think he might at last get free of his Zionism.”

Letters to the Editor 2010

His boss, Münzenburg, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Comintern, as Scammell concedes.

Letters to the Editor 2010

His boss, Münzenburg, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Comintern, as Scammell concedes.

Letters to the Editor 2010

Michael Scammell seems to have forgotten the distinction between Károlyi and Kun.

Letters to the Editor 2010