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1928 Cover of Bambi: A Life in the Woods, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, translated by Whittaker Chambers
The Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in reply to its recent review of one of the new 2022 translations of Bambi: A Life in the Woods, written by Felix Salten in 1923 […]
Another Hiss: Duncan Chaplin Lee
By David Chambers On 2015.05.01 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Politics, Review - Book, Reviews
A reviewer argues with author Mark A. Bradley that American spy Duncan Chaplin Lee
TIME Remembers Grapes of Wrath
By David Chambers On 2015.01.25 · 3 Comments · In Art, Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Movie, Reviews
This week’s TIME magazine issue includes an article called “‘We’re the People’: John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath at 75” by long-time movie critic and editor Richard Corliss.
Corliss contextualizes the movie and its impact on its 75th anniversary. Remembering that Gone With the Wind had comes […]
The Hiss Case nosed its way into popular culture via Hollywood in shorts like “Dunked in the Deep” (1949) with the Three Stooges and in Alfred Hitchcock‘s spy-romance-thriller North By Northwest (1959), featuring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
(Do you know of other instances?)
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TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White
By David Chambers On 2013.04.30 · 3 Comments · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Book, Reviews
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 26 April 2013
Sir, – Eric Rauchway‘s review of 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 […]
TLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers
By David Chambers On 2013.04.24 · Leave a Comment · In Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Book, Reviews
The Times Literary Supplement issue of April 5, 2013, published a review called “How the Soviets Saved Capitalism,” written by UC Davis professor Eric Rauchway.
It reviews Benn Steil The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a […]
The Atlantic picks a very helpful quote from Ayn Rand‘s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged that goes a long way to explain why Whittaker Chambers’s review makes sense:
Bill Buckley once said he thought Whittaker Chambers had gone too far when […]
Ill Fares the Land: Tony Judt
By David Chambers On 2010.05.21 · Leave a Comment · In Current Affairs, History, Politics, Review - Book, Reviews
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
(New York: Penguin, 2010)
Ill Fares the Land makes for a brisk if chilling read. “We have entered an age of insecurity: economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity,” it begins. “The last time a cohort of young […]
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