Whittaker Chambers : a biography /
Nearly half a century after giving the testimony that sent Alger Hiss to prison, Whittaker Chambers remains among the most controversial of twentieth-century Americans, hated by many, revered by others. Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens...
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New York :
Random House,
[1997]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Outcast (1901-1925): Vivian ; Distant horizons ; A serious man ; Signing on
- Bolshevik (1925-1932): His brother's keeper ; Upheavals ; The hottest literary Bolshevik
- Spy (1932-1938): Going underground ; The ware cell ; Saving the world
- Defector (1938-1939): Disappearances ; "Whose ghost are you?"
- Crusader (1939-1948): The clash of swords ; "God bless you, Harry" ; Ghost on the roof ; Sorrow songs
- Witness I: The Hearings (August
- December 1948): Fetching a bone ; Pure dynamite ; "I can make that fellow president" ; A man named Crosley ; "I could not do otherwise" ; The means of justice ; The pumpkin papers ; Indictment
- Witness II: The Trials (January 1949
- January 1950): Preparations ; "Unclean! unclean!" ; Rich finds ; The wood stock ; Alger and Priscilla ; Lucifer vs. the serpent ; Verdict ; The American jitters ; Blind analysis ; Eleven words
- Exile (1950
- 1961): Public recluse ; Witness ; Close calls ; The last path ; "The witness is gone"
- Appendix: Sifting the evidence.