Volume 44, Number 18 · November 20, 1997
The Case of Cases
By Theodore H. Draper
Whittaker Chambers
by Sam Tanenhaus
Random House, 638 pp., $35.00
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (updated edition)
by Allen Weinstein
Random House, 622 pp., $20.00 (paper)
The Hiss-Chambers case was the cause célèbre a half century ago. Now two books have appeared that bring it once more to our attention. A young biographer has spent seven years on a 638-page book going over the ground of Whittaker Chambers's own autobiography, Witness. A historian has put out a new edition, filling 622 pages, of his previous study of the case.
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