Sam Tanenhaus' new biography examines the life and influence of the political commentator, magazine editor and TV debater who ...

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 ...

David Chambers is an independent historian of Soviet espionage and the Hiss case (1948-1950), in which his grandfather Whittaker Chambers was a major participant. He runs WhittakerChambers.org.

Soon, Whittaker Chambers, Alger Hiss and Richard Nixon were household names. Chambers had joined the Communist Party of America in 1924. Then in his early 20s, ...

COLD FRIDAY by Whittaker Chambers. 327 pages. Random House. $5.95. Whittaker Chambers spent his life searching for final answers. Spurred by "the need for truth" and "the fear of ...

Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 in Philadelphia, the elder of two sons of Jay Chambers, who made a precarious living as a commercial artist. The family stock was a mixture of Dutch, German ...

As the congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone's mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old ...