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"Whittaker Chambers" is rich in startling new information about every phase of its subject's varied life: his 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 "Time," where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the ...
20 de abr. de 2011 · Whittaker Chambers 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 ...
April 1, 2001, marked one hundred years since the birth of Jay Vivian “Whittaker” Chambers, one of the most interesting Americans of the twentieth century. Chambers was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his early youth in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York. He attended Union Avenue Grammar School and South Side High ...
Whittaker Chambers first came to public notice in 1928 — including an article in TIME magazine — for his translation of Felix Salten‘s Bambi: A Life in the Woods (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1928). More than a dozen translations followed over the next dozen years.
14 de may. de 2018 · Jay Vivian Chambers was born April 1, 1901, in Philadelphia. He took his mother's family name Whittaker when he entered Columbia University in 1920. Young Chambers loved literature and had a gift for foreign languages, but severe family crises, his increasingly radical political opinions, and his lonely and brooding personality caused him to ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · Whittaker Chambers 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 ...
Whittaker Chambers. Jay Vivian „Whittaker“ Chambers (* 1.April 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 9. Juli 1961 in Westminster, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Redakteur sowie kommunistischer Agent und Informant. 1938 wechselte er auf Grund der Berichte über die Moskauer Prozesse die Seite und trat aus der kommunistischen Partei aus.
