On the C-SPAN Networks: Alger Hiss was an Official for the Department of State with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1948 House Committee. Communist Party Member ...

In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the ...

He was 25, an honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he ...

Within the space of a generation—that is, since 1964, when Cold Friday was published to tepid reviews—Whittaker Chambers has been all but forgotten as a writer. Those conversant with the Alger Hiss ...

FRIENDSHIP AND FRATRICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS & ALGER HISS by Meyer A. Zeligs, M.D. 476 pages. Viking. $8.95. This is not a conventional biography, but something that might be called a ...

This past April saw yet another new title reach the field: Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss by Jeff Kisseloff. A quarter-century in the writing, a ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America; By Clay Risen; Scribner ; 480 pp., $31.00 Between then and now, two big revelations for historians came out, both in the mid-1990s.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Whittaker Chambers was a Senior Editor for the Time Magazine with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1948 House Committee. Communist Party ...

ALGER HISS WAS ""FIRST RATE IN every way,'' according to Felix Frankfurter, his professor at Harvard Law School. He was tall, handsome, perhaps a bit arrogant but graceful and sure. Voted ""best hand ...

On Feb. 8, 1950, Joe McCarthy, a still-obscure senator from Wisconsin, addressed a meeting of the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. The good ladies were not shocked by his warning ...