CHAMBERS, WHITTAKER

1901–61, U.S. journalist and spy, b. Philadelphia. He joined the U.S. Communist party in 1925 and wrote for its newspaper before engaging (1935–38) in espionage for the USSR. He left the party in 1939 and began working for Time magazine. In 1948 he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, accusing Alger Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former State Dept. official, of being a Communist party member. Hiss sued for libel, and Chambers then accused him of having been part of an espionage ring. Chambers, now being promoted by Congressman Richard Nixon, led investigators to his Maryland farm, where he produced from a hollowed-out pumpkin State Dept. documents he alleged Hiss had given him. Hiss was indicted for perjury, and after two trials was found guilty (1950) and imprisoned. The case was extremely controversial, and both men were vehemently attacked and defended.

See Chambers's autobiography, Witness (1952, repr. 1983); A. Cooke, A Generation on Trial (1950, 2d ed. 1952); R. Seth, The Sleeping Truth: The Hiss-Chambers Affair Reappraised (1968); A. Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (1978); S. Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers (1997).

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books on: Chambers Whittaker  - 444 results

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The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss
Book by Fred J. Cook; Morrow, 1958
Subjects: Chambers, Whittaker, Communism--United States--1917-, Hiss, Alger
Chambers, Whittaker cont. libel suit brought by Hiss...108 , 111 , 118 , 131 , 134 , 135 Chambers, Mrs. Whittaker, 30 , 31 , 32 , 36...99 Christ, Jesus, blasphemied by Chambers, 3 Class Reunion Werfel , 171 Collins...
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United Nations in Action
Book by David J. Whittaker; UCL Press, 1995
...May 1993 when the Secretary-General proposed to the Security Council that a tribunal be set up. There would be two trial chambers, an independent prosecutor, arrangements for defence counsel, and an appeals bench of 11 judges. Only individuals would...
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Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary World
Book by David J. Whittaker; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Conflict Management, History, Modern--20th Century, International Relations, Social Conflict, Violence
...state must have a single sovereignty and citizenship status, and one customs union. The Nicosia legislature would have two chambers with a Greek-Turkish representation of 50:50 in the upper house and 70:30 in the lower. The Turkish army of occupation...
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A Complete Life of General George A. Custer - Vol. 2
Book by Frederick Whittaker; University of Nebraska Press, 1993
Subjects: Custer, George Armstrong--1839-1876, Generals--United States--Biography, United States--Army--Biography
...The advance was sounded, and the line of battle then formed, was "Noyes" battalion" right, "Mills" right centre, "Chambers" centre, "Indian allies" left centre, Royall with "Henrys battalion," and one company of Mills left. Mills and Noyes...
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Schools and Streams of Economic Thought
Book by Edmund Whittaker; Rand McNally, 1960
Subjects: Economics--History
...average person who is interested in this subject.The large encyclopedias should be remembered. The Americana , Britannica , Chambers' and Collier's encyclopedias all contain articles on many of the writers and topics considered in this book, as does the...
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Lionel Trilling's the Middle of the Journey and the Complicated Origins of the Neo-conservative Movement
Journal article by Michael Kimmage; Shofar, Vol. 21, 2003
Subjects: Communism, Ethics, Jews, Literature, Political ethics, Politics, Social conditions & trends
...modeled on his college classmate, Whittaker Chambers, had been the most radical of...of the Soviet underground, as Chambers had been in person.(8) Maxims...relationship between Gifford Maxim and Whittaker Chambers in "Whittaker Chambers...
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Forgotten Godfathers: Premature Jewish Conservatives and the Rise of National Review
Journal article by George H. Nash; American Jewish History, 1999
Subjects: American Jews--Political activity, Conservatism--Demographic aspects, Conservative literature--History, Jews, American--Political activity, National Review (Periodical)--History, Religion and politics--Analysis
...Communist (and Time editor) named Whittaker Chambers.(71) Between 1939 and 1944...from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers-Ralph de Toledano Letters...59. (164.) Toledano to Whittaker Chambers, December 14, 1951, printed...
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The Trilling Files
Journal article by John Rodden; Shofar, Vol. 26, 2008
Subjects: Committees, Congressional investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation--FBI, Jews, Marxism, Novels, Political prisoners, Politics, Radical groups, Trilling, Lionel
...them involving the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. Most of these reports...entitled "Personal History of Whittaker Chambers" and it notes that it was based on interviews with Chambers by special agents J. J. Ward...
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From the Poem of a Life: a Biography of Louis Zukofsky
Journal article by Mark Scroggins; Chicago Review, Vol. 50, 2005
Subjects: Adams, Henry (1843-1916), Columbia University, Higher education, Intellectuals, Jews, Literary criticism, Personal profiles, Poets, Zukofsky, Louis
...one of Zukofskys non-Jewish friends, Whittaker Chambers, using a German phrase he would...Literature at Yale. And then there was Whittaker Chambers. Chambers, who had grown up...had made some fast friendships there: Whittaker Chambers, who was his "closest" friend...
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Leadership by Exemplar: Reagan's FDR and Thatcher's Churchill
Journal article by Philip Abbott; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1997
Subjects: Churchill, Winston--Political activity, Executive power--Analysis, Reagan, Ronald--Political activity, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Political activity, Thatcher, Margaret--Political activity
...Although Reagans deep attachment to Whittaker Chambers, reiterated throughout many...Reagans belief that he, like Chambers, personally "witnessed" two...Reagan compared himself to Whittaker Chambers when he remembered the...
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History's Witness
Magazine article by Elena Maria Vidal; American Conservative, Vol. 10, June 2011
Subjects: Books, Chambers, David, Chambers, Whittaker, Communism, Grandparents, Politics, United States, Writers
...SCHOOL with the grandchildren of Whittaker Chambers. At the time, I only knew...guilty. The latest book, Whittaker Chambers: Tiie Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary...new to an understanding of Whittaker Chambers. My father helped Allen Weinstein...
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At the Origins of the Culture War
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2000
Subjects: Anti-communist movements--History, Chambers, Whittaker--Biography, United States history--1945-
...Tanenhaus splendid biography, Whittaker Chambers (Random House), and was reminiscing...tumultuous period. The Hiss-Chambers trials of 1949-1950 happened...Later I would read Whittaker Chambers Witness and come to reckon it...
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If Sarah Palin Is the Answer ..
Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The National Interest, September 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Death of Conservatism (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Why are Jews Liberals? (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Kimmage, The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Cambridge...takes the random chance that Trilling and Whittaker Chambers were friends at Columbia in the 1920s, and that Trillings...
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A Top Journalist for Six Decades, Toledano Still Knows the News
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, December 22, 1997
Subjects: Conservatism--Personalities, De Toledano, Ralph--Interviews, Ex-communists--Personal narratives, Journalists--Interviews
...Underground, a collection of letters he and Whittaker Chambers exchanged in the 1950s, following the...turned Toledano into a conservative, and Chambers death in 1961. Insight: Whittaker Chambers had this fear that America was going to...
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Getting It Right: a Conversation with Bill Buckley
Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; Human Events, Vol. 64, March 3, 2008
Subjects: Foreign policy, Freedom of movement, Novels
...the National Review piece by Whittaker Chambers, attacking her for her atheism...values and beliefs that Whitaker Chambers endorsed, or that Ayn Rands...thinking. Which it didnt. Whittaker Chambers pessimism would, I think...
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Honoring Whittaker Chambers
Newspaper article by Helle Bering; The Washington Times, July 11, 2001
Honoring Whittaker Chambers by Helle Bering Byline: Helle Bering...disclosed, the name of Whittaker Chambers remains controversial. This year...memorial to the 40th anniversary of Chambers death, a tribute to an extraordinary...
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White House Honors Memory of Anti-Communist Chambers
Newspaper article by Ralph Z. Hallow; The Washington Times, July 10, 2001
...honors memory of anti-communist Chambers by Ralph Z. Hallow Byline: Ralph...death of anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers, who exposed treason and espionage...the U.S. government. Mr. Chambers, who described communism as...
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Choices and Echoes; A Chamber of Conservative Voices
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 17, 2007
Subjects: Conservatism, Goldwater, Barry M.
Choices and Echoes; A Chamber of Conservative Voices. Byline: Jeremy Lott, SPECIAL TO THE...showing readers what conservatism was. The opening shot is Whittaker Chambers famous 1948 testimony before the House Committee on Un-American...
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With the 'Precision of a Bullet'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 20, 2009
...Reviewing the book for Time magazine in 1941, Whittaker Chambers (my grandfather), wrote, It moves with...proven itself well worth the wait. * David Chambers, a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers, is a management consultant...
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Equally Erring about Hiss
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 22, 2009
...Erring about Hiss. Byline: David Chambers, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES...and light. As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers (who was another gifted writer...features the usual suspects: Mr. Chambers, Richard Nixon, conservatives...
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Chambers, Whittaker
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHAMBERS, WHITTAKER 1901 61, U.S. journalist and spy...party member. Hiss sued for libel, and Chambers then accused him of having been part of an espionage ring. Chambers, now being promoted by Congressman...
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Hiss, Alger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...International Peace. In Aug., 1948, Whittaker Chambers , a magazine editor and former...controversy lingers. See W. Chambers, Witness (1952, repr. 1983...The Sleeping Truth: The Hiss-Chambers Affair Reappraised (1968...
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House Un-American Activities Committee
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...prison sentences for contempt for a group of recalcitrant witnesses who became known as the Hollywood Ten. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers made sensational accusations of Soviet espionage against former State Dept. official Alger Hiss ; those hearings...
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Communist Party , in the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...employment in the executive branch of the federal government. The sensational confessions of former Communists, such as Whittaker Chambers , and increasing evidence of Communist espionage led to highly publicized investigations by Congress (especially...
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Nixon, Richard Milhous
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...on Un-American Activities, where he was credited with forcing the famous confrontation between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers , thus precipitating the perjury case against Hiss. In 1950 he was elected to the U.S. Senate after a particularly...
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