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How theatrical a time it was, and if only the dead would rise for one final casting call, what a motion picture it would make! Comedy, of course. You think immediately of Groucho Marx as Max Shachtman and Chico as James P. Cannon, since it should be a brother act, but if they should prove unavailable, then any number of the great comedy teams, from Smith and Dale to Martin and Lewis could capture these squabbling heirs of the revolutionary Trotskyist tradition. And speaking of teams, what about Walter Matthau and George Burns — the sunshine boys — as Philip Rahv and William Phillips of Partisan Review?
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Shechner, M. (1990). The Last Trotskyist. In: The Conversion of the Jews and Other Essays. New Directions in American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21020-6_20
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