Witness
โ Scribed by Chambers, Whittaker
- Publisher
- Perseus Distribution-A
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 618 KB
- Edition
- Reissue
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780895267894
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โฆ Synopsis
Witness has changed the lives of countless readers since it was first published in 1952. This 50th Anniversary Edition recounts Whittaker Chambers' early work with the Communist Party, his later renunciation of communism, and the astounding Hiss-Chambers spy trial in a book that packs the emotional wallop-and literary power-of a classic Russian novel.
The New Criterion - Hilton Kramer
One of the few indispensable autobiographies ever written by an American โ and one of the best written too... It deserves to be recognized as a first class achievement.
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