James Burnham 1905-1987. (obituary)

National Review | September 11, 1987| | Copyright

James Burnham

1905-1987

At the most recent quarterly meeting of the sernior editors it was resolved to have a private evening with James Burnham, arranging to bring him from Kent, Connecticut, to Stamford, where the editors would join him for a convivial dinner. The date set for the festivity was Monday, August 3. On Saturday, August 1, I shared with five other men the burden of carrying the casket in which Jim's corpse lay to the gravesite. I pondered, during those moments of physical strain, the great weight Jim Burnham had lifted from the callow shoulders of a ...

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