right to left

Greg Howard ghoward at appalshop.org
Fri Feb 15 12:26:30 PST 2002



> There were a group of smart National
> Reviewers in
> the 1960s who moved to the left: Garry Wills, Joan Dideon, John
> Leonard, and
> (a bit eccentrically) Guy Davenport. Are there any other cases of people
> going from right to left?

Can anybody describe the trajectory of Davenport? I had always heard that his name was included without his permission in a pro-Nixon advertisement in the NYT, and that he just kind of drifted off after that. Is there a different/better story?

Greg



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