{"product_id":"2940169803877","title":"Whittaker Chambers: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhittaker Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad¿including still-classified KGB dossiers¿Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America¿s greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis biography is rich in startling information about Chambers¿ days as New York¿s ¿hottest literary Bolshevik¿; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. \u003cem\u003eWhittaker Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbable twists and turns and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, \u003cem\u003eWhittaker Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid tapestry of twentieth century history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098119061744,"sku":"2940169803877","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169803877_p0.jpg?v=1769900261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169803877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}