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Whittaker Chambers

Andre Deutsch, London, 1953

The witness is gone, the testimony will stand
Read this for graduate American history course. There are a few rare instances in American history when a court case grips the passions of its citizens and serves to define people's political or social beliefs based on which side they believed was in the right. The Sacco and Vanzetti case of the 1920's, the Rosenberg espionage trials of the 1950's, and the O. J. Simpson case of the 1990's were ...

Ghosts on the Roof (Library of Conservative Thought)

3 reviews
Whittaker Chambers

Transaction Publishers, 1996

witnessing
For forty years the accepted establishment view of Whittaker Chambers was that of a fat, rumpled weirdo, obsessed, presumably for some kind of degenerate sexual reasons, with the destruction of Alger Hiss, a man who was in every way his better. Even the publication and excellent sales of his extraordinary memoir, Witness, could not erase that caricature from the minds of the elites. I remember ...

Witness

61 reviews
Whittaker Chambers

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1978

Haunting
Witness is among the most haunting books that I have ever read. The reader who picks it up expecting only a combination spy story and courtroom drama is likely to be as profoundly surprised as was I. I had somewhat absent-mindedly placed Witness on my birthday gift list, in deference to the frequency with which it is cited as one of the indispensable political books of the 20th century. Upon ...

Witness: Library Edition

1 review
Whittaker Chambers

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2005

The witness is gone, the testimony will stand
Read this for graduate American history course. There are a few rare instances in American history when a court case grips the passions of its citizens and serves to define people's political or social beliefs based on which side they believed was in the right. The Sacco and Vanzetti case of the 1920's, the Rosenberg espionage trials of the 1950's, and the O. J. Simpson case of the 1990's were ...

Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers/Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960

1 review
Whittaker Chambers

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1997

The witness is gone, the testimony will stand
Read this for graduate American history course. There are a few rare instances in American history when a court case grips the passions of its citizens and serves to define people's political or social beliefs based on which side they believed was in the right. The Sacco and Vanzetti case of the 1920's, the Rosenberg espionage trials of the 1950's, and the O. J. Simpson case of the 1990's were ...

Cold Friday
Whittaker Chambers, 1964

Whittaker Chambers, an American writer and editor who renounced communism more than fifty years ago and warned about subversives in the U. S. Government. His last published work (1964) presciently foretold that a revolt in Eastern Europe would bring down world communism. On August 3, 1948, Chambers, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), identified several members of an underground communist network that had ...