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Loading... Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soulby Patrick Swan
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book of essays, many contemporary with the Hiss case, others prompted by events such as Chambers' death or the reissue of an earlier book, gives a very interesting perspective on the evolving significance of the original trials. I have seen reviews elsewhere that criticise the editor for including only two essays by defenders of Hiss's innocence, but I think the purpose of the book is to present us with the most well-written and thought-provoking analyses of the many issues the case raised, not to retry the case itself. Readers of any political stripe should find this a stimulating read.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Whittaker Chambers's spiritual autobiography "Witness, " Swan anthologizes 23 of the best essays ever written on Chambers and Alger Hiss by Leslie Fiedler, Arthur Koestler, and William F. Buckley Jr. These writers comment on the two men while expressing their own divergent opinions on the nature of communism (and anticommunism), liberalism, and many other issues. No library descriptions found. |
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