Witness by Whittaker Chambers

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First published in 1952, Witness was at once a literary effort, a philosophical treatise, and a bestseller. Whittaker Chambers had just participated in America's trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet Union. This poetic autobiography recounts the famous case, but also reveals much more. Chambers' worldview—e.g. "man without mysticism is a monster"—went on to help make political conservatism a national force.

Table of Contents

1: Flight

2: The Story of a Middle-Class Family

3: The Outrage and the Hope of the World

4: The Communist Party

5: Underground: The First Apparatus

6: The Child

7: Underground: The Second Apparatus

8: Colonel Boris Bykov

9: The Division Point

10: The Tranquil Years

11: The Hiss Case

12: The Bridge

13: The Hiss Case II

14: 1949

15: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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