Witness
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Witness

  1. 718 pages
  2. English
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About this book

#1 New York Times bestseller for 13 consecutive weeks! "As long as humanity speaks of virtue and dreams of freedom, the life and writings of Whittaker Chambers will ennoble and inspire." - PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN "One of the dozen or so indispensable books of the century..." - GEORGE F. WILL "Witness changed my worldview, my philosophical perceptions, and, without exaggeration, my life." - ROBERT D. NOVAK, from his Foreward "Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies. When some future Plutarch writes his American Live, he will find in Chambers penetrating and terrible insights into America in the early twentieth century." - ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR. "Chambers had a gift for language....to call Chambers an activist or Witness a political event is to say Dostoevsky was a criminologist or Crime and Punishment a morality tract." - WASHINGTON POST "Chambers was not just the witness against Alger Hiss, but was also one of th articulators of the modern conservative philosophy, a philosophy that has something to do with restoring the spiritual values of politics." - SAM TANENHAUS, author of Whittaker Chambers "One of the few indispensable autobiographies ever written by an American - and one of the best written, too. " - HILTON KRAMER, The New Criterion First published in 1952, Witness is the true story of Soviet spies in America and the trial that captivated a nation. Part literary effort, part philosophical treatise, this intriguing autobiography recounts the famous Alger Hiss case and reveals much more. Chambers' worldview and his belief that "man without mysticism is a monster" went on to help make political conservatism a national force. Regnery History's Cold War Classics edition is the most comprehensive version of Witness ever published, featuring forewords collected from all previous editions, including discussions from luminaries William F. Buckley Jr., Robert D. Novak, Milton Hindus, and Alfred S. Regnery.

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Information

Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781621572961
eBook ISBN
9781621573760

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Publisher’s Preface to the 1997 Edition
  6. Witness and Friend: Remembering Whittaker Chambers
  7. A Masterpiece at Fifty
  8. Foreword to the 1984 Edition
  9. Foreword in the Form of a Letter to My Children
  10. One: Flight
  11. Two: The Story of a Middle-Class Family
  12. Three: The Outrage and the Hope of the World
  13. Four: The Communist Party
  14. Five: Underground: The First Apparatus
  15. Six: The Child
  16. Seven: Underground: The Second Apparatus
  17. Eight: Colonel Boris Bykov
  18. Nine: The Division Point
  19. Ten: The Tranquil Years
  20. Eleven: The Hiss Case
  21. Twelve: The Bridge
  22. Thirteen: The Hiss Case II
  23. Fourteen: 1949
  24. Fifteen: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  25. Index