{"product_id":"book-1988","title":"Whittaker Chambers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhittaker Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis biography is rich in startling information about Chambers' days as New York's \"hottest literary Bolshevik\"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. \u003cem\u003eWhittaker Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbable twists and turns and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, \u003cem\u003eWhittaker Chambers\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid tapestry of twentieth century history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49302955917616,"sku":"BD1988","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49302955950384,"sku":"ZM1988","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audio CD [ZP]","offer_id":49302956015920,"sku":"ZP1988","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1988-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775532433","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1988","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}