Sam Tannenhaus
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Solzhenitsyn said that at Harvard.
At commencement.
At commencement.
At commencement.
I mean, it's unthinkable today.
Yeah, that's right.
He went up to Vermont.
Remember, David Remnick went and interviewed him.
David Remnick is a guy who gets a lot of this stuff.
And we have some very interesting— Yeah, Lenin's Tomb is a fabulous book.
Lenin's Tomb is fantastic.
And I can't do it here, but I'll show you the note later.
Remnick sent me about this book in Chambers.
He sent me a note not long ago.
He said, basically, like, this is the history nobody has told that needs to be told and will be there forever.
He says, forget everything else.
Forget what the critics say and all this.
But there's another guy who's really important to me is a guy I know.
Not well, but I've written about him and I've met him a few times.
He's Robert Caro.