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Whittaker Chambers

Author (1-Apr-1901 — 9-Jul-1961)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS


William F. Buckley (editor). Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, 1954-1961. New York: National Review. 1969. 303pp.

Ronald Seth. The Sleeping Truth: The Hiss-Chambers Affair Reappraised. New York: Hart Publishing Company. 1968. 292pp.

Patrick Swan. Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Schism in the American Soul. Chicago: Intercollegiate Studies Institute. 2002. 350pp.

Sam Tanenhaus. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Random House. 1997. 638pp.

Ralph de Toledano; Victor Lasky. Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy. Newsweek. 1950. 284pp.

Allen Weinstein. Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. Vintage Books. 1979. 674pp.

E. J. Worth. Whittaker Chambers: The Secret Confession. Mazzard. 1993.

Meyer A. Zeligs. Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. New York: Viking Press. 1967. 476pp.


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  3. Internet Movie Database [link]

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  5. Wikipedia [link]

  6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

  7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.132)

  8. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.296-97)

  9. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.125)

  10. Legends in Their Own Time (p.46)




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