Bill KauffmanRUTH SARLES was chief researcher and Senate lobbyist for the America First Committee. A former editor with the pacifist National Council for Prevention of War, Sarles represents the often-unacknowledged liberal face of the anti-intervention movement f 1940-41. After marrying Bertram Benedict in 1943, Sarles worked as a Washington Daily News reporter and a State Department analyst. She died in 1996.

BILL KAUFFMAN is associate editor of The American Enterprise. He is the author of four books: With Good Intentions? Reflections on the Myth of Progress in America (Praeger, 1998), America First! Its History, Culture, and Politics (1995), Country Towns of New York (1995), and the novel Every Man a King (1989).
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