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Sam Tanenhaus



Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of both The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review section of the Times. From 1999 to 2004 he was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he wrote often on politics.

His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. Tanenhaus’s previous book, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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How William F. Buckley Jr. Wrote Trump���s Playbook

William F. Buckley Jr. was also a revolutionary.
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“Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.”
― Sam Tanenhaus, Literature Unbound
tags: betrayal, memory, time
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“In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.”
― Sam Tanenhaus, Literature Unbound
tags: beginning, conclusion, pursue
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“We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.”
― Sam Tanenhaus, Literature Unbound
tags: death, demand, impulse
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