Author:
Chambers, Whittaker, author.
Edition Statement:First Regnery History edition.
ImprintWashington, DC : Regnery History, 2014.
Descriptionl, 718 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:"A true story of Soviet spies in America and the trial that captivated the nation." --Front cover.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Flight -- the story of a middle-class family -- The outrage and the hope of the world -- The Communist Party -- Underground: the first apparatus -- The child -- Underground: the second apparatus -- Colonel Boris Bykov -- The division point -- The tranquil years -- The Hiss case -- The bridge -- The Hiss case II -- 1949 -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Note: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.
