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Description edit
"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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Characters/People edit
- Alger Hiss: Add a description of this character.
- Bykov
- Donald Hiss
- Ulrich
- J. Peters
- Herman
- George Crosley
- Mr. Nixon
- Paul
- Bill
- Harry Dexter White
- Carl
- Charlie
- Marbury
- Levine
- Wadleigh
- Dr. Rosenbliett
- Mr. Stripling
- Mr. Chairman
- Krivitsky
- Richard
- George Silverman
- Harold Ware
- Noel Field
- Stalin
- John Abt
- Maria
- Carpenter
- Keith
- Harry Freeman
- Lee Pressman
- Felix
- Bob
- Henry Collins
- Whittaker
- Harry White
- Berle
- Lenin
- Lieber
- Mr. Chambers
Setting & Locations edit
- Washington
- New York City
- United States Government
- Baltimore
- Moscow
- Russia
- Soviet Union
- Europe
- Long Island
- London
- Japan
- Brooklyn
- Germany
- Maryland
- China
- San Francisco
- Paris
- Philadelphia
- England
- New Masses
- Tokyo
- Time
- California
- Lynbrook
- France
- Florida
- Manhattan
- Berlin
- Columbia
- New Jersey
- Soviet Government
- Pennsylvania Station
- West Coast
- Mount Royal Terrace
- Georgetown
- Yalta
- America
- Lovestoneites
- St. Matthews Court
- Finland
- Italy
- Chicago
- Smetana
- Bukharin
- Lore
Table of Contents edit
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
Index
Series & Lists edit
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.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Whittaker Chambers (Author)
First Edition edit
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Publication Date: 1952
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Publication Date: 1952
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Awards edit
- National Book Award (Finalist, 1953: Nonfiction)
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- Dewey: 324.27375092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › 1945 - Present
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Leaders & Leadership
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
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