In The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal III, Arthur
Kahn recounts how after returning to New York from a nine-month
sojourn in the People's Democracies of Eastern Europe he found
himself adrift. Under Truman's loyalty oaths and blacklistings and
McCarthyite Cold War repression, the left-wing community within
which he had participated in activist struggle for more than a
decade was in dissolution. Reviewing his earlier years, Arthur Kahn
concluded that except for the periods in which he had a sense of
direct involvement in history he felt most alive during his career
as a teacher, and in this third volume of his autobiography he
describes his returning to university at the age of 41 to obtain a
doctorate and his subsequent rapid advance to a full professorship
as chairman of a Classics Department in a new Canadian university.
He recounts the vicissitudes he underwent in an abortive struggle
to revivify the humanist tradition. He reports his success in
enriching the lives of his students, in establishing fruitful
associations with professional colleagues throughout the United
States and Canada and in contributing to scholarship with the
publication of articles in learned journals and in a twelve-year
effort in composing a biography of Julius Caesar that would prove
to be his magnum opus. He recounts, too, his Dr. Jekyll's wrestling
with an obdurate Mr. Hyde.
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