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.

Thompson, James H. A review of Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961, by Whittaker Chambers. Library Journal 95, no. 6 (15 March 1970): 1018.

Positive assessment of Odyssey of a Friend.

Wechsler, James A. “American Melodrama.” New Statesman and Nation 37, no. 937 (19 February 1949): 175-76.

Synopsis of the Hiss case.

Weinstein, Allen. Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. New York: Random House, 1978, 622 p.

Full-length chronicle of the Hiss-Chambers case.

Additional coverage of Chambers's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, 89-92; and, Literature Resource Center.