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Whittaker Chambers : a biography / Sam Tanenhaus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House, c1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 638 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0394585593 (alk. paper)
  • 9780394585598 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E743.5 .T36 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Outcast (1901-1925): Vivian ; Distant horizons ; A serious man ; Signing on -- Bolshevik (1925-1932): His brother's keeper ; Upheavals ; The hottest literary Bolshevik -- Spy (1932-1938): Going underground ; The ware cell ; Saving the world -- Defector (1938-1939): Disappearances ; "Whose ghost are you?" -- Crusader (1939-1948): The clash of swords ; "God bless you, Harry" ; Ghost on the roof ; Sorrow songs -- Witness I: The Hearings (August -- December 1948): Fetching a bone ; Pure dynamite ; "I can make that fellow president" ; A man named Crosley ; "I could not do otherwise" ; The means of justice ; The pumpkin papers ; Indictment -- Witness II: The Trials (January 1949 -- January 1950): Preparations ; "Unclean! unclean!" ; Rich finds ; The wood stock ; Alger and Priscilla ; Lucifer vs. the serpent ; Verdict ; The American jitters ; Blind analysis ; Eleven words -- Exile (1950 -- 1961): Public recluse ; Witness ; Close calls ; The last path ; "The witness is gone" -- Appendix: Sifting the evidence.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-606) and index.

Outcast (1901-1925): Vivian ; Distant horizons ; A serious man ; Signing on -- Bolshevik (1925-1932): His brother's keeper ; Upheavals ; The hottest literary Bolshevik -- Spy (1932-1938): Going underground ; The ware cell ; Saving the world -- Defector (1938-1939): Disappearances ; "Whose ghost are you?" -- Crusader (1939-1948): The clash of swords ; "God bless you, Harry" ; Ghost on the roof ; Sorrow songs -- Witness I: The Hearings (August -- December 1948): Fetching a bone ; Pure dynamite ; "I can make that fellow president" ; A man named Crosley ; "I could not do otherwise" ; The means of justice ; The pumpkin papers ; Indictment -- Witness II: The Trials (January 1949 -- January 1950): Preparations ; "Unclean! unclean!" ; Rich finds ; The wood stock ; Alger and Priscilla ; Lucifer vs. the serpent ; Verdict ; The American jitters ; Blind analysis ; Eleven words -- Exile (1950 -- 1961): Public recluse ; Witness ; Close calls ; The last path ; "The witness is gone" -- Appendix: Sifting the evidence.