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Whittaker Chambers

A Biography

Whittaker Chambers( )
Author: Tanenhaus, Sam
ISBN:978-0-375-75145-5
Publication Date:Apr 1998
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Modern Library
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.00
Book Description:

Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in...
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Tanenhaus, Sam (Author)
Sam Tanenhaus was born on October 31, 1955. He received a B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English literature from Yale University in 1978. He is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. His books include Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait, Season of Power, Louis Armstrong: Biography of a Musician, The Death of Conservatism, and Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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