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1. Jan. 1997 · Whittaker Chambers 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 ...
Whittaker Chambers (ur. 1 kwietnia 1901 w Filadelfii, zm. 9 lipca 1961 w Westminster) – amerykański pisarz, członek Komunistycznej Partii Stanów Zjednoczonych, później radykalny antykomunista. Znany przede wszystkim ze swoich zeznań obciążających Algera Hissa i Harry’ego Dextera White’a – szpiegów GRU i INO NKWD w ...
Whittaker Chambers died at his dairy farm in Maryland, sequestered in the quiet life he felt was the only escape from a world gone mad. He had done what he could to fight communism and, more importantly, to explain the personal motives and historical forces that gave that destructive creed its impetus. As one friend commented, “The witness is gone. The testimony remains.”
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.
23. Okt. 2015 · 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. In 1952, Chambers's book Witness was published ...
1. Apr. 2011 · Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified ...
