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Dec 8, 2014 · Whittaker Chambers. Witness (Cold War Classics) Paperback – December 8, 2014. by Whittaker Chambers (Author) 4.7 866 ratings. See all formats and editions. #1 New York Times bestseller for 13 consecutive weeks! "As long as humanity speaks of virtue and dreams of freedom, the life and writings of Whittaker Chambers will ennoble and inspire."
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Combining his literary talents with his devotion to communism, Chambers wrote four short stories for New Masses in 1931 about proletarian hardship and revolt, including Can You Make Out Their Voices?, which was considered by critics as one of the best pieces of fiction of American communism. [10] .
Whittaker Chambers in Books. Fascination-Revulsion; C-SPAN: Cold War Era Spies; TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White
Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment ...
Whittaker Chambers has 39 books on Goodreads with 9145 ratings. Whittaker Chambers’s most popular book is Bambi: A Life in the Woods.
He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss. In 1952, Chambers's book Witness was published to widespread acclaim. The book was a combination of autobiography, an account of his role in the Hiss case and a warning about the dangers of Communism and liberalism.
First published in 1952, Witness is the true story of Soviet spies in America and the trial that captivated a nation. Part literary effort, part philosophical treatise, this intriguing autobiography recounts the famous Alger Hiss case and reveals much more.
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