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| Author | Whittaker Chambers |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Espionage, communism |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Random House, Regnery Publishing |
Publication date | May 1952 |
| Publication place | United States of America |
| Pages | 799 (body) |
| Awards | 1953 National Book Award finalist for nonfiction |
| 324.273/75/092 B | |
| LC Class | E743.5 .C47 |
| Followed by | Cold Friday (1964) |
| Website | https://whittakerchambers.org/ |
Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment against Alger Hiss and two trials in 1949.[1][2]
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 3–24 (foreword), 25–90 (defection), 91–190 (family), 191–200 (indoctrination), 201–274 (WPA/CPUSA), 275–324 (1st apparatus), 325–330 (family), 331–404 (2nd apparatus), 405–448 (Bykov), 449–452 (defection), 453–528 (Time magazine), 529–698 (Hiss Case 1), 699–704 (bridge), 705–786 (Hiss Case 2), 787–796 (1949 trials), 797–799 (afterword). ISBN 9780394452333. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- ^ "Witness". WhittakerChambers.org. Retrieved October 13, 2021.