Un-american Life, An: the Case of Whittaker Chambers

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LA TIMES BOOK AWARD WINNER
PULITZER FINALIST
US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
“Remarkable” New York Times
“Magisterial” Wall Street Journal
“SIMPLY THE BEST-WRITTEN VOLUME OF HISTORY OR
BIOGRAPHY I’VE READ IN YEARS”
David Aaronovitch, The Times
Splendid... The reader is struck over and again by twists that no John Le Carré or Robert Harris would dare
invent... One of the best books there are about the Communist experience in the first half of the last century.”
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Spectator KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF US CONSERVATISM, McCARTHY ERA, 20TH CENTURY US POLITICS * * With new introduction by the author (editor of the New York Times Book Review)
* Universally critically acclaimed biography now in mass market edition The spellbinding story of Whittaker Chambers, the complex figure whose intriguing transformation from
Communist agent in the 1930s to anti-Communist witness climaxed in 1948, when he testified against
Alger Hiss in the spy case that shook and changed America. With a cast that includes Richard Nixon as
a young lawyer, Joseph McCarthy and many others, An Un-American Life is at once a vivid tapestry of
twentieth-century history, a spectacular human drama and a political thriller of the highest order.
This exclusive edition contains a new introduction which brilliantly links the historical implications of
the Chambers-Hiss case with the political reality in present-day America.
“A thrilling cloak and dagger story of espionage, stolen secrets, dual identities, smuggled messages,
treachery and murder... with a moral for our time: honour those who speak unpopular truths. ”
Tina Brown
Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of the New York Times Book Review and former contributing editor at Vanity
Fair. He is a frequent contributor to a host of major American newspapers, journals and magazines and
a commentator on radio and television. He lives in Tarrytown, New York, with his wife and daughter.

ISBN: 9781905847433
Author: TANENHAUS SAM
Format: Paperback
RRP: $24.95