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Comment on About by TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White - Whittaker Chambers in Books

TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White - Whittaker Chambers in Books — Sat, 04 May 2013 02:40:38 +0000

[...] Benn Steil‘s book The Battle of Bretton Woods contains a common mistake about my grandfather, Whittaker Chambers. (Read [...]

Comment on TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White by Mitchell Freedman

Mitchell Freedman — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:26:48 +0000

I email you because I am deeply pleased at your objectivity about your grandfather and those whom he accused of being Reds and traitors. I always loved “Witness” for its literary as well as historical merit, and yet was left wondering at the vagueness and almost defensive manner in which he discussed Harry Dexter White.

I was wondering what you now think of Benn Steil’s new book about Harry Dexter White and Bretton Woods after reading your excellent take on Steil’s article last year in the NY Times.

I personally find Steil to be extremely shallow and lacking in any larger insight about White’s actual motives and his policy positions.

My take on White and why we are overstating the case against White, and not recognizing his independent policy position of wanting the Soviets to join the IMF and World Bank so as to create more international monetary and trade cooperation is here:

http://mitchellfreedman.blogspot.com/2013/05/of-harry-dexter-white-and.html

I was also an active commenter to Eric Rauchway’s two posts at Crooked Timber on the dust up he’s had with Steil.

Thank you for your consideration here, and I hope you continue to keep the perspective and desire for understanding moving forward.

Comment on TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White by The Baffling Harry White | Whittaker Chambers

The Baffling Harry White | Whittaker Chambers — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:23:51 +0000

[...] (The following year, the Times Literary Supplement reviewed Mr. Steil’s book: an excerpt regarding Whittaker Chambers appears here, while a clarification in the form of a letter to the editor appears here.) [...]

Comment on TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White by TLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers | Whittaker Chambers

TLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers | Whittaker Chambers — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:53:31 +0000

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Comment on About by TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White | Whittaker Chambers

TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White | Whittaker Chambers — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:46:46 +0000

[...] Benn Steil‘s book The Battle of Bretton Woods contains a common mistake about my grandfather, Whittaker Chambers. He did not defect in 1938 “after a religious revelation”. He left for a variety of [...]

Comment on About by TLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers | Whittaker Chambers

TLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers | Whittaker Chambers — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:47:32 +0000

[...] got him a longer term job at the Treasury. Sometime after this, White began passing information to Whittaker Chambers, a GRU agent. One memorandum in White’s handwriting survives, and though it contains little [...]

Comment on Soviet Strategy in the Middle East by WilliamE. Baker

WilliamE. Baker — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:28:02 +0000

Here in 2013, it seems to me that Mr. Chambers was the prophet to whom we ignored at our peril.

Comment on Cinema: Grapes of Wrath by micah cottle

micah cottle — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:30:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for spending time to publish “Cinema: Grapes of Wrath | Whittaker Chambers”.
Thanks once more -Kit