{"id":52711,"date":"2022-10-10T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=52711"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:25:16","slug":"a-great-writer-of-spy-thrillers-told-the-awful-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/10\/a-great-writer-of-spy-thrillers-told-the-awful-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"A Great Writer of Spy Thrillers Told the Awful Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Europe in labour had through its pain seen for an instant a new glory, and then had collapsed to welter again in the agonies of war and fear. Governments had risen and fallen; men and women had worked, had starved, had made speeches, had fought, had been tortured, had died. Hope had come and gone, a fugitive in the scented bosom of illusion. Men had learned to sniff the heady dreamstuff of the soul and wait impassively while the lathes turned the guns for their destruction.” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Demetrios (1939)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postscript: Oct. 11<\/strong> \u2014 And in America, what will happen if Trump wins again?<\/a> \u201cI think it would be the end of the republic,\u201d says Princeton University professor\u00a0<\/strong>Sean Wilentz, one of the historians quoted by The Washington Post.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt would be a kind of overthrow from within. \u2026 It would be a coup of the way we\u2019ve always understood America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Men had learned to sniff the heady dreamstuff of the soul and wait impassively while the lathes turned the guns for their destruction.’<\/p>\n

\u2014 Eric Ambler <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/A-COFFIN-FOR-DIMITRIOS-240-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dIb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53428,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711\/revisions\/53428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}