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14. Mai 2018 · Jay Vivian Chambers was born April 1, 1901, in Philadelphia. He took his mother's family name Whittaker when he entered Columbia University in 1920. Young Chambers loved literature and had a gift for foreign languages, but severe family crises, his increasingly radical political opinions, and his lonely and brooding personality caused him to ...
Whittaker Chambers born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker, was an American writer and editor. A Communist party member and Soviet spy, he later renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent. He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss.
Whittaker Chambers (nascido Jay Vivian Chambers; Filadélfia, Pensilvânia, 1 de abril de 1901 - Westminster, Maryland, 9 de julho de 1961) foi um escritor e editor norte-americano que, após os primeiros anos como membro do Partido Comunista (1925) e espião soviético (1932-1938), desertou em 1938, trabalhou para a revista Time (1939–1948) e depois testemunhou sobre o grupo Ware no que se ...
Whittaker Chambers goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbably twists and turns, and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions. A rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, Whittaker Chambers is a vivid tapestry of 20th century history.
Aliases (1920-1961): “Whittaker”. After a month at Williams College in the Fall of 1920, Chambers returned to New York and enrolled at Columbia University under the name “ Whittaker Chambers .”. He lived openly under this name for more than a decade. He used it to register in the open American Communist Party in 1925 again as ...
8. Aug. 2022 · Whittaker Chambers remains one of the great witnesses to the moral, political, cultural, and spiritual crisis that spanned the “short twentieth century,” beginning with the “guns of August” in 1914 and ending with the annus mirabilis of 1989 as East-Central Europe was liberated from the Communist yoke. His masterwork, Witness, was ...
4. Dez. 1997 · by Allen Weinstein. Random House, 622 pp., $20.00 (paper) Whittaker Chambers; drawing by David Levine. Buy Print. Unlike Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers left no mystery about his political beliefs. He was not a systematic thinker, but he was a man of ideas. Without his ideas, he was merely an informer who soon would have been forgotten.
