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Purchase this title AN UN-AMERICAN LIFE: THE CASE OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
 
AUTHOR Sam Tanenhaus
PUBLISH DATE February 2007
PRICE £25.00
ISBN 978-1-905847-07-5
FORMAT Hardback
EXTENT 672 Pages

 

 
  Finalist for Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award (US)
 

 

The spellbinding story of Whittaker Chambers, the complex figure whose intriguing transformation from Communist agent in the 1930s to anti-Communist witness climaxed in 1948, when he testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that shook and changed America.

With a cast that includes Richard Nixon as a young lawyer, Joseph McCarthy and many others, An Un-American Life is at once a vivid tapestry of twentieth-century history, a spectacular human drama and a political thriller of the highest order.

This exclusive edition contains a new introduction which brilliantly links the historical implications of the Chambers-Hiss case with the political reality in present-day America.

 

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The Critics
   
  “Sam Tanenhaus has closed the case of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, and thus put to rest one
of the most persistent (and repellent) myths of the fellow-travelling Left.”
Christopher Hitchens  
  “A thrilling cloak and dagger story of espionage, stolen secrets, dual identities, smuggled messages, treachery and murder. A psychological drama of the anguish of a man who felt that love of his country was a higher oral duty than fidelity to his friends, with a a moral for our time: honour those who speak unpopular truths. ” Tina Brown  
       
 
The Author

Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of the New York Times Book Review and former contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is a frequent contributor to a host of major American newspapers, journals and maggazines and a commentator on radio and television. He lives in Tarrytown, New York, with his wife and daughter.

 
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