Bibliography of Whittaker Chambers
Appearance
Bibliography of writings by Chambers
[edit]Translations
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- Bambi (1928): Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde by Felix Salten. Published by Ullstein Verlag, Austria in 1923. Translated by Whittaker Chambers as Bambi, A Life in the Woods. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York in 1928.
- Complete list of translations 1928-1940
Books and plays
[edit]For the best known work written by Chambers, see separate entry Witness (memoir)
- Chambers, Whittaker (1932). Can You Hear Their Voices?. International Pamphlets.
- Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House. ISBN 0-89526-571-0.
- Saints for Now. Ignatius Press. 1952. ISBN 0-89870-476-6. (includes a Commonweal article by Whittaker Chambers)[1]
- Chambers, Whittaker (1964). Cold Friday. Random House. ISBN 0-394-41969-3.
Online
[edit]- Chambers, Whittaker. "National Review [complete articles]". National Review. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
- Chambers, Whittaker (1986). "A Letter to My Children". Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- Chambers, Whittaker (2008). "List of Translations by Whittaker Chambers". WhittakerChambers.org. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
Collections
[edit]- Chambers, Whittaker (1987). Buckley Jr., William F. (ed.). Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F. Buckley Jr. 1954-1961. Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-89526-567-2.
- Chambers, Whittaker (1997). de Toledano, Ralph (ed.). Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers/Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960. Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-89526-425-0.
- Chambers, Whittaker (1989). Teachout, Terry (ed.). Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959. Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-89526-765-9.
Magazine or journal articles
[edit]New Masses
[edit]- "Can You Make Out Their Voices" (March 1931)[2]
- "You Have Seen the Heads" (April 1931)[3]
- "Our Comrade Munn" (October 1931))[4]
- "The Death of the Communists" (December 1931)[5]
Time
[edit]- "The Ghosts on the Roof" (1945)[6]
- "Books: Problem of the Century" (1946)[7]
- "Religion: In Egypt Land" (1946)[8]
- "Education: The Challenge" (1947)[9]
- "Books: Circles of Perdition" (1947)[10]
- "Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age" (1948)[11]
Life
[edit]- 1947–1948:
- "The Middle Ages" (April 7, 1947)
- "Medieval Life" (May 26, 1947)
- "The Glory of Venice" (August 4, 1947)
- "The Age of Enlightenment" (September 15, 1947)
- "The Edwardians" (November 17, 1947)
- "Age of Exploration" (March 22, 1948)
- "The Protestant Revolution" (June 14, 1948)
- "The Devil Throughout History," (February 2, 1948)
- "Is Academic Freedom in Danger?" (June 22, 1953)
- "The End of a Dark Age Ushers in New Dangers" (April 30, 1956)
Commonweal
[edit]- "The Sanctity of St. Benedict" (September 19, 1952)
National Review
[edit]- "Big Sister Is Watching You" (December 27, 1957)
- "all National Review articles 1957–1959
Collected magazine articles
[edit]- Chambers, Whittaker. "Time articles by Whittaker Chambers". WhittakerChambers.org. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- Chambers, Whittaker. "National Review articles by Whittaker Chambers". WhittakerChambers.org. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
Other media
[edit]Video on Chambers
[edit]- "Writings of Whittaker Chambers". American Writers: A Journey Through History. C-SPAN. 2002. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- Chambers, David (2014). "Doubled Links: Whittaker Chambers and the Global Network of Great Illegals, 1932-1935". C-SPAN. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- YouTube.com Red Spy Films. Chambers Farm, Secret Doc. 1948/12/06 (1948) time: 00:00:51
- RAM Whittaker Chambers on "close friends"
- RAM Alger Hiss Story - Chambers on the "tragedy of history"
- RAM Alger Hiss defends himself
- Historical Footage
Photos
[edit]- 1931 Whittaker Chambers
- 1939 Whittaker Chambers
- 1948 Whittaker Chambers before HUAC
- 1950 Whittaker Chambers reading of Hiss guilty verdict
- 1961 Whittaker Chambers near the time of his death
Hiss–Chambers case
[edit]Books on Hiss case
[edit]- De Toledano, Ralph; Lasky, Victor (1950). Seeds of Treason - The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy. Funk and Wagnalls.
- Cooke, Alistair (1950). A Generation on Trial: USA v. Alger Hiss. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23373-X.
- Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House.
- Morris, Richard Brandon (1952). Fair trial: Fourteen who stood accused from Anne Hutchinson to Alger Hiss. Alfred A. Knopf.
- Jowitt, William Allen (1953). The Strange Case of Alger Hiss. Hodder and Stoughton.
- Kempton, Murray (2003) [1955]. Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties. NYRB Classics. ISBN 1-59017-087-3.
- Hiss, Alger (1957). In the Court of Public Opinion. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-090293-0.
- Cook, Fred J. (1958). The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss. William Morrow & Company. ISBN 1-131-85352-0.
- McHughes, Lee M. (October 1961). "The Hiss Act and Its Application to the Military" (PDF). Military Law Review. Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army: 69–108.
- Andrews, Bert; Andrews, Peter (1962). A Tragedy Of History: A Journalist's Confidential Role In The Hiss-Chambers Case. Robert B. Luce.
- Zeligs, Meyer A. (1967). Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. New York Viking Press.
- Seth, Ronald (1968). The Sleeping Truth: The Hiss-Chambers Affair Reappraised. Frewin. ISBN 0-09-086890-0.
- Buckley, Jr., William F. (1969). Odyssey of a friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961. Putnam.
- Levine, Isaac Don (1973). Eyewitness to History. Hawthorn Books, Inc. ISBN 1-891936-53-0. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72-4919.
- Smith, John Chabot (1976). Alger Hiss, The True Story. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-03-013776-4.
- Hiss, Tony (1977). Laughing last: Alger Hiss. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-24899-X.
- Weinstein, Allen (1978). Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. Random House. ISBN 0-679-77338-X.
- Levitt, Morton; Levitt, Michael (1979). Tissue of Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss. Random House. ISBN 0-517-37134-0.
- Theoharis, Athan (Editor) (1982). Beyond the Hiss Case: The FBI, Congress, and the Cold War. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-241-X.
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- A Tribute to Whittaker Chambers. Heritage Foundation. 1984.
- Moore, William Howard (1987). Two Foolish Men: The true story of the friendship between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Moorop Press.
- Hiss, Alger (1989). Recollections of a Life. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 1-55970-024-6.
- Gwynn, Beatrice (1993). Whittaker Chambers: The Discrepancy in the Evidence of the Typewriter. Mazzard Publishers. ISBN 0-9518738-1-4.
- Worth, Esme J. (1993). Whittaker Chambers: The Secret Confession. Mazzard Publishers. ISBN 0-9518738-0-6.
- Oeste, Bob (1996). Last Pumpkin Paper (novel). Random House. ISBN 0-679-44837-3.
- Ralph, de Toledano (1997). Notes from the underground: the Whittaker Chambers--Ralph de Toledano letters, 1949-1960. Regnery.
- Hiss, Tony (1999). The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir. Alfred E. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40127-X.
- Olmsted, Kathryn S. (2002). Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2739-8.
- Swan, Patrick, ed. (2003). Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul. ISI Books. ISBN 1-882926-91-9.
- Ruddy, T. Michael (2004). The Alger Hiss Espionage Case. Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 0-15-508560-3.
- White, G. Edward (2005). Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-518255-3.
- Tanenhaus, Sam (2007). An Un-American Life: The Case of Whittaker Chambers. Old Street Publishing (UK). ISBN 978-1-905847-07-5.
- Hartshorn, L. (2013). Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the case that ignited McCarthyism. McFarland.
Articles on Hiss case
[edit]Film on Hiss case
[edit]- Nixon, 1995, directed by Oliver Stone, (IMDB) - video clips of Whittaker Chambers
- Concealed Enemies, 1984, directed by Jeff Bleckner, (IMDB) - made-for-television movie on the Hiss-Chambers case (pro-Hiss)
- The Trials of Alger Hiss, 1980, (IMDB) - pro-Hiss film (see also The New York Times)
- North by Northwest, 1959, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (IMDB) - reference to the Pumpkin Papers
- Commotion on the Ocean, 1959, Three Stooges (IMDB) - features microfilm in watermelon in reference to the Pumpkin Papers
Articles or chapters on Chambers
[edit]- Chambers, David (20 March 2007). "Different Legal Risks In Hiss, Libby Cases". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- Vidal, Elena Maria (28 April 2011). "History's Witness: His grandson sets the record straight about Whittaker Chambers". The American Conservative. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- Chambers, David (2012). "The Baffling Harry White". History News Network. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
Chambers and Soviet espionage
[edit]- Andrew, Christopher; Mitrokhin, Vasili (2000). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00312-5.
- Weinstein, Allen; Vassiliev, Alexander (2000). The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Era. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75536-5.
- Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey (2003). In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage. Encounter Books. ISBN 1-893554-72-4.
- Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey (2000). Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08462-5.
- Meier, Andrew (2008). The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06097-3.
- Schecter, Jerrold; Schecter, Leona (2003). Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History. Potomac Books. ISBN 1-57488-522-7.
- Adams, Jefferson (2014). "The Early Days". Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond (The Making of the Contemporary World). Routledge. pp. 25–41.
Novels that include characters based on Chambers
[edit]- Bacon, Susan (2019). The History Teacher. ISBN 978-1-7330827-0-9. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- Trilling, Lionel (2002) [1947]. The Middle of the Journey. New York Review of Books Classics Series. ISBN 1-59017-015-6.
- Buckley, William F. (1999). The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-11589-4.
References
[edit]- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (19 September 1952). "The Sanity of St. Benedict". Commonweal. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (April 1931). "Can You Make Out Their Voices" (PDF). New Masses: 7–13. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (October 1931). "You Have Seen the Heads" (PDF). New Masses: 14–17. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (April 1931). "Our Comrade Munn" (PDF). New Masses: 14–16. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (December 1931). "The Death of the Communists" (PDF). New Masses: 10–12. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Foreign News: The Ghosts on the Roof". Time. 5 March 1945. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Books: Problem of the Century". Time. 25 February 1946. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Religion: In Egypt Land". Time. 30 December 1946. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Education: The Challenge". Time. 7 March 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Books: Circles of Perdition". Time. 8 December 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age". Time. 8 December 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- "Whittaker Chambers in Books". WhittakerChambers.org. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- Authors Guild
- "Testimony of Whittaker Chambers before HUAC". August 3, 1948. Archived from the original on July 21, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
- "Testimony of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss before HUAC". August 17, 1948. Archived from the original on July 21, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
- "Time Magazine's review of Witness". Time. June 9, 1952.[permanent dead link]
- Douglas, Ann. "Review of Sam Tanenhaus's Whittaker Chambers: A Biography".
- Schlesinger, Arthur (1997). "Review of Sam Tanenhaus's Whittaker Chambers: A Biography". The New York Times.
- Langer, Elinor (1999). "Review of Sam Tanenhaus's Whittaker Chambers: A Biography". The Nation.
- "Historical Notes: Death of a Witness". Time. July 21, 1961. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- Scott, Janny (November 16, 1996). "Obituary of Alger Hiss". The New York Times.
- Linder, Douglas. "The Alger Hiss Trials: An Account". Famous Trials. University Of Missouri-Kansas City School Of Law. Archived from the original on 2006-08-30.
- Sempa, Francis P. (2001). "Whittaker Chambers: A Centenary Reflection". American Diplomacy.
- Edwards, Lee (2001). "Whittaker Chambers: Man of Courage and Faith". The Heritage Foundation.
- Buckley, William F. (2005). "Witness and Friends; Remembering Whittaker Chambers". National Review.
- Cryer, Dan (2005). ""We're a long way from the end of this"; An Interview with Tony Hiss". Salon.com.
- Kramer, Hilton (1997). "Whittaker Chambers: the judgment of history". The New Criterion.
- Isserman, Maurice. "Disloyalty As a Principle: Why Communists Spied". Archived from the original on 2008-10-03.
- Navasky, Victor (1997). "Allen Weinstein's Docudrama". The Nation. Archived from the original on June 27, 2003.
A review of Weinstein's "Perjury"
- Schrecker, Ellen (1999). "The Spies Who Loved Us?". The Nation.
A discussion of Weinstein and "The Haunted Wood"
- Fox, John F. Jr. (2005). "In the Enemy's House: Venona and the Maturation of American Counterintelligence". FBI. Archived from the original on 2006-11-15. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
- Benson, Robert L. "The Venona Story". National Security Agency. Archived from the original on 2006-10-03. Retrieved 2006-11-14.