Critic, journalist, novelist and feminist Rebecca West (1892-1983) is known for her studies of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremburg, for which President Harry Truman called her 'the world's best reporter.' In 1959, West was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of an honorary knighthood.
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Critic, journalist, novelist, and feminist Rebecca West describes her discovery that human nature does not naturally support liberty in 'Goodness Doesn’t Just Happen', her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National P... SEE MORE