Whittaker Chambers
Book description
[Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Read by Edward Lewis]
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in…
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1 author picked Whittaker Chambers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Alger Hiss case riveted America in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His trial and conviction convince many Americans that Communist espionage had been a serious problem and the case made Richard Nixon a national figure. His chief accuser, Whittaker Chambers, was a fascinating, tormented, talented man and writer. Tanenhaus’s biography portrays him with all his virtues, warts, and contradictions.
From Harvey's list on Soviet espionage.
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