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"Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies...penetrating and terrible insights into America in the early twentieth century." --Arthur Schlesingr, Jr.

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Witness and Friend: Remembering Whittaker Chambers By William F Buckley Jr.
A Masterpiece at Fifty By Robert D Novak
Foreword 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. 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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This is book 24 of 102 in National Review - 100 Best Non-fiction Books of the Century. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Relativity, and followed by The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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  1. Whittaker Chambers (Author)

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Publication Date: 1952
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