Bibliograph

Witness, Whitaker Chambers ; forewords by William F. Buckley Jr., Robert D. Novak, and Milton Hindus

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Label

Witness, Whitaker Chambers ; forewords by William F. Buckley Jr., Robert D. Novak, and Milton Hindus

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Witness

Oclc number

897508897

Responsibility statement

Whitaker Chambers ; forewords by William F. Buckley Jr., Robert D. Novak, and Milton Hindus

Series statement

Cold War classics

Summary

First published in 1952, Witness was at once a literary effort, a philosophical treatise, and a bestseller. Whittaker Chambers had just participated in America's trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet Union. This poetic autobiography recounts the famous case, but also reveals much more. Chambers' worldview - i.e. man without mysticism is a monster - went on to help make political conservatism a national force

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