9780895264251 - Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers--Ralph De Toledano Letters, 1949-1960 de Chambers, Whittaker; De Toledano, Ralph (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Used like new. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Used like new. Used like new hardcover in like new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches) Includes notes. 369 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. For the first time: the only known contemporaneous written record of Whittaker Chamber's thoughts during the trial of Alger Hiss. In 1948, Chambers, a former Communist agent, and a Time magazine editor, fingered Hiss, a senior State Department official, as a Soviet spy - triggering the most famous espionage trial in American history. Ralph de Toledano, the Newsweek reporter covering the Hiss trial (technically for perjury), quickly became close friends with Chambers. The two men began exchanging letters in 1949 and continued for the rest of Chamber's life. Now, in Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers-Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960, these letters have been collected and made available for the first time. Chambers, best known for his moving personal memoir, Witness, is portrayed here as a man of deep philosophical and spiritual thought. Included are Chambers's reflections on the state of American liberalism, his opinions of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, his words of personal anguish suffered after the close of the trial, and his thoughts on the fate of Western civilization. Revered by many and misunderstood by others, Whittaker Chambers still remains one of the 20th century's most controversial Americans. These letters show how Chambers's powerful, often moving words still reverberate strongly today because of their passion, intellectual clarity, and deep understanding of American civilization.

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