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After graduating from South Side High School in neighboring Rockville Centre in 1919, Chambers worked itinerantly in Washington and New Orleans, briefly attended Williams College and then enrolled as a day student at Columbia College of Columbia University. [1]
Whittaker Chambers, né Jay Vivian Chambers et aussi connu comme David Whittaker Chambers, né le 1 er avril 1901 à Philadelphie et mort le 9 juillet 1961 à Westminster, est un écrivain et éditeur américain.
Whittaker Chambers (born April 1, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died July 9, 1961, near Westminster, Md.) was an American journalist, Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and a principal figure in the Alger Hiss case, one of the most publicized espionage incidents of the Cold War.
Learn about the life and work of Whittaker Chambers, who was a Communist spy, a TIME editor, and a witness in the Hiss Case. Explore his memoir Witness, his translations, his letters, and his legacy.
Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal ...
Whittaker Chambers, orig. Jay Vivian Chambers, (born April 1, 1901, Philadelphia—died July 9, 1961, near Westminster, Md., U.S.), U.S. journalist and principal figure in the Alger Hiss case.
20 mars 2020 · Nearly half a century after giving the testimony that sent Alger Hiss to prison, Whittaker Chambers remains among the most controversial of twentieth-century Americans, hated by many, revered by others. Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure.
