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

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers--Ralph De Toledano Letters, 1949-1960
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895264250
• ISBN 13: 9780895264251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Jay Vivian Chambers (1901 –1961), known as Whittaker Chambers, was an American editor who denounced his Communist spying and became respected by the American Conservative movement during the 1950s.

After early years as a Communist Party member and Soviet spy, he defected from communism (underground and open party) and worked at Time magazine. Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's espionage trials  and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review . President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 198