Witness
by Whittaker Chambers Author
(From Amazon): 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--e.g. "man without mysticism is a monster"--went on to help make political conservatism a national force.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0895267896
- Print Status
- In Print
- chapters
- 17
- Pages
- 808
- Suggested Grades
- 10th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- United States of America
- Historical Setting
- 1950 - 1980
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing
- Edition
- Reissue
- Copyright
- 1987
chapters
- dedication witness and friend, by William F Buckley, Jr
- foreward Foreward in the form of a letter to my children
- 1 flight
- 2 the story of a middle class family
- 3 the outrage and the hope of the world
- 4 the communist party
- 5 The Underground: the first apparatus
- 6 the child
- 7 underground: the second apparatus
- 8 colonel boris bykov
- 9 the division point
- 10 the tranquil years
- 11 the hiss case
- 12 the bridge
- 13 the hiss case II
- 14 1949
- 15 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
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