This is the official website of Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961): member of the Workers Party of America (1925), journalist at the Daily Worker and New Masses (1926-1932), Soviet underground agent (1932-1938), editor and senior editor at TIME magazine (1939-1948), witness in the Hiss Case (1948-1950), author of best-selling memoir Witness (1952), member of the founding editors of National Review, and (post-humous) recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Hello Mr. Chambers.
My husband and I are both nearly finished reading Witness.
I feel like the teenage Jewish kid who tried rather pitifully to express his gratitude and respect for your grandfather. It’s impossible to describe how deeply moving and informative I find the book. I am right now avoiding finishing the last 50 or so pages because I don’t want it to end and because my affection for Whittaker Chambers is so great. Silly, but true.
Along the way I’ve been transcribing sections here and there, and emailing to friends. This is the most recent excerpt I chose, and perhaps my favorite of all:
[excerpt from page 617]