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<p><i>Whittaker Chambers</i> is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in startling new information about Chambers's days as New York's "hottest literary Bolshevik"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at <I>Time</I> magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. <i>Whittaker Chambers</i> goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbably twists and turns, and disentangling the motive
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- Author
- Chambers, Whittaker; Chambers, Whittaker; Hiss, Alger; Stripling.; Thomas.; Hiss, Alger; Tanenhaus, Sam
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library;Random House
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299038219
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (305 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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