Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers--Ralph De Toledano Letters, 1949-1960

Chambers, Whittaker

ISBN 10: 0895264250 / ISBN 13: 9780895264251

Published by Regnery Publishing, 1997

Square And Tight Binding, Brigght Clean Pages With No Names Or Marks, The Dj Looks New. Seller Inventory # 049309

Synopsis:

Never-before-published collection of letters between Chambers, a former Communist agent, and journalist Ralph de Toledano.

From the Back Cover: For the first time: the only known contemporaneous written record of Whittaker Chambers'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 Chambers'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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker ...
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: no
Edition: 1st Edition