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CORRIGENDUM

Nolan Bennett: The Claims of Experience:
Autobiography and American Democracy.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Pp. ix, 257.)—CORRIGENDUM

doi:10.1017/S0034670520000339. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2 June
2020

In the second paragraph of Smith’s review of The Claims of Experience:
Autobiography and American Democracy, by Bennett,1 in the August 2020
issue of Review of Politics, the book author’s name was misspelled. The sen-
tence in which the error occurred should read as follows:

In The Claims of Experience, political theorist Nolan Bennett usefully ana-
lyzes a genre, autobiography, through which an intriguing variety of
public figures, who have gained prominence in very different ways,
have sought to shape the imagined community of American democracy.

Additionally, Whittaker Chambers’ name was misspelled twice, in the follow-
ing sentences:

The autobiographical writers Bennett explores in chronological order are
Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Henry Adams, Emma Goldman,
and Whittaker Chambers.

Whittaker Chambers turned from a 1930s idealism that led him to the
Communist Party and friendship with Alger Hiss to disillusionment
with Stalinist Russia and a quest for solace in a populist, patriotic
Christianity—though Bennett rightly argues that Chambers gave more
allegiance in practice to conservative statist authority than to his moral
ideals.

We apologize to both Nolan Bennett and Whittaker Chambers for the errors.

1Rogers Smith, “Nolan Bennett: The Claims of Experience: Autobiography and American
Democracy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 257.),” Review of Politics 82,
no. 3 (2020): 484-86. doi:10.1017/S0034670520000339.

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The Review of Politics 82 (2020), 524.
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of
University of Notre Dame
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	Nolan Bennett: The Claims of Experience: Autobiography and American Democracy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 257.)---CORRIGENDUM