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Article: DUMPY CHAMBERS BROUGHT DOWN NATTY HISS.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1997
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Byline: BROWN H. CARPENTER
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
A Biography
SAM TANENHAUS
Random House. 638 pp. $35.
Who would think we need another look at Whittaker Chambers almost half a century after the anonymous, dumpy, ill-kempt Time magazine editor and former Russian agent fingered Alger Hiss, the natty, effete pride of the New Deal, as having been a Soviet spy during the 1930s while serving in the State Department?
The congressional hearings and subsequent perjury trial of Hiss seem hardly relevant today, although Chambers' accusations were political dynamite in 1948, when Republicans were eager to capture the White House ...