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[Read by Edward Lewis]
Victor of the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Pulitzer Award and National E book Prize finalist
< br> Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of the complicated and enigmatic physique. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in america and overseas -- including still-classified KGB dossiers -- Tanenhaus traces the amazing trip that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island town to center level in America's very best political trial and then, in his previous years, to a distinctive role as the godfather of post-war conservatism.
This biography is abundant with startling information about Chambers' times as New York's ''most popular literary Bolshevik;'' his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his alteration to Quakerism; his magic formula sexual turmoil; his turbulent ten years at Time magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review webpage to convert the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable happenings that started out in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that modified America. Whittaker Chambers runs far beyond all earlier accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbable twists and changes and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of individuals in unpredictable guidelines.
A uncommon conjunction of exacting scholarship or grant and narrative art work, Whittaker Chambers is a vivid tapestry of twentieth century record.
