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FURTHER READING

BIOGRAPHIES

Tanenhaus, Sam. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1997, 638 p.

Comprehensive biography of Chambers.

Zeligs, Meyer A. Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. New York: The Viking Press, 1967, 476 p.

Biographical account of the lives of Chambers and Hiss.

CRITICISM

Hausknecht, Murray. “Confession and Return.” Antioch Review 14 (spring 1954): 76-86.

Hausknecht discusses Witness as a work of political confession.

Martin, Kingsley. “The Witness.” The New Statesman and Nation 44, no. 1115 (19 July 1952): 60-1.

Mixed review of Chambers's Witness.

Tanenhaus, Sam. “Hiss: Guilty as Charged.” Commentary 95, no. 4 (April 1993): 32-8.

Examines new evidence on the Hiss case and speculates on Hiss's guilt.

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Robert Raynolds (review date autumn 1951)
   2. John Cogley (review date 23 May 1952)
   3. Irving Howe (essay date 1952)
   4. David Cort (review date 16 February 1970)
   5. John Kenneth Galbraith (review date 28 March 1970)
   6. Wilfred Sheed (review date March 1971)
   7. Gerhart Niemeyer (review date 4 August 1978)
   8. William McGurn (essay date spring 1984)
   9. Russell Nieli (essay date summer 1987)
   10. Philip Abbott (essay date 1987)
   11. Joseph Sobran (review date 2 June 1989)
   12. Charles Horner (review date April 1990)
   13. Sam Tanenhaus (essay date April 1990)
   14. Colm Brogan (review date 11 December 1995)
   15. Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 September 1997)
   16. William F. Buckley Jr. (review date 24 November 1997)
   17. Theodore Draper (essay date 4 December 1997)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright