Sam Tanenhaus
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Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
Sam Tanenhaus
- 1997 LATimes–Biography winner
- 1998 Pulitzer–Biography finalist
- 1997 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 22.47
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, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in startling new information about Chambers’s days as New York’s “hottest literary…
