Bibliography of Whittaker Chambers

Bibliography of writings by Chambers

Translations

1923 first edition cover of Bambi, which Chambers translated into English in 1928

Books and plays

For the best known work written by Chambers, see separate entry Witness (memoir)

Online

Collections

Magazine or journal articles

New Masses

  • "Can You Make Out Their Voices" (March 1931)
  • "You Have Seen the Heads" (April 1931)
  • "Our Comrade Munn" (October 1931))
  • "The Death of the Communists" (December 1931)

Time

  • "The Ghosts on the Roof" (1945)
  • "Books: Problem of the Century" (1946)
  • "Religion: In Egypt Land" (1946)
  • "Education: The Challenge" (1947)
  • "Books: Circles of Perdition" (1947)
  • "Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age" (1948)

Life

  • 1947–1948:
    • "The Middle Ages" (April 7, 1947)
    • "Medieval Life" (May 26, 1947)
    • "The Glory of Venice" (August 4, 1947)
    • "The Age of Enlightenment" (September 15, 1947)
    • "The Edwardians" (November 17, 1947)
    • "Age of Exploration" (March 22, 1948)
    • "The Protestant Revolution" (June 14, 1948)
  • "The Devil Throughout History," (February 2, 1948)
  • "Is Academic Freedom in Danger?" (June 22, 1953)
  • "The End of a Dark Age Ushers in New Dangers" (April 30, 1956)

Commonweal

  • "The Sanctity of St. Benedict" (September 19, 1952)

National Review

Collected magazine articles

Other media

Video on Chambers

Photos

Hiss–Chambers case

Books on Hiss case (and Second Red Scare)

  1. De Toledano, Ralph; Lasky, Victor (1950). Seeds of Treason - The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy. Funk and Wagnalls.
  2. Cooke, Alistair (1950). A Generation on Trial: USA v. Alger Hiss. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23373-X. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  3. Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. Random House.
  4. Morris, Richard Brandon (1952). Fair trial: Fourteen who stood accused from Anne Hutchinson to Alger Hiss. Alfred A. Knopf.
  5. Jowitt, William Allen (1953). The Strange Case of Alger Hiss. Hodder and Stoughton.
  6. Kempton, Murray (2003) [1955]. Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties. NYRB Classics. ISBN 1-59017-087-3.
  7. Hiss, Alger (1957). In the Court of Public Opinion. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-090293-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  8. Cook, Fred J. (1958). The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss. William Morrow & Company. ISBN 1-131-85352-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  9. McHughes, Lee M. (October 1961). "The Hiss Act and Its Application to the Military" (PDF). Military Law Review. Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army: 69–108.
  10. Andrews, Bert; Andrews, Peter (1962). A Tragedy Of History: A Journalist's Confidential Role In The Hiss-Chambers Case. Robert B. Luce.
  11. Packer, Herbert L (1962). Ex-Communist Witnesses: Four Studies in Fact Finding- A Challenging Examination of the Testimony of Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz, and John Lautner. Stanford University Press.
  12. Zeligs, Meyer A. (1967). Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. New York Viking Press.
  13. Seth, Ronald (1968). The Sleeping Truth: The Hiss-Chambers Affair Reappraised. Frewin. ISBN 0-09-086890-0.
  14. Buckley, Jr., William F. (1969). Odyssey of a friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961. Putnam.
  15. Levine, Isaac Don (1973). Eyewitness to History. Hawthorn Books, Inc. ISBN 1-891936-53-0. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72-4919.
  16. Smith, John Chabot (1976). Alger Hiss, The True Story. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-03-013776-4.
  17. Hiss, Tony (1977). Laughing last: Alger Hiss. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-24899-X.
  18. Weinstein, Allen (1978). Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. Random House. ISBN 0-679-77338-X.
  19. Levitt, Morton; Levitt, Michael (1979). Tissue of Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss. Random House. ISBN 0-517-37134-0.
  20. Theoharis, Athan, ed. (1982). Beyond the Hiss Case: The FBI, Congress, and the Cold War. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-241-X.
  21. Reuben, William A (1983). Footnote on an Historic Case: In Re Alger Hiss, No. 78 Civ. 3433. Nation Institute.
  22. A Tribute to Whittaker Chambers. Heritage Foundation. 1984.
  23. Moore, William Howard (1987). Two Foolish Men: The true story of the friendship between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Moorop Press.
  24. Hiss, Alger (1989). Recollections of a Life. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 1-55970-024-6.
  25. Gwynn, Beatrice (1993). Whittaker Chambers: The Discrepancy in the Evidence of the Typewriter. Mazzard Publishers. ISBN 0-9518738-1-4.
  26. Worth, Esme J. (1993). Whittaker Chambers: The Secret Confession. Mazzard Publishers. ISBN 0-9518738-0-6.
  27. Walton, Douglas (1995). Arguments from Ignorance. Penn State University Press.
  28. Oeste, Bob (1996). Last Pumpkin Paper (novel). Random House. ISBN 0-679-44837-3.
  29. Ralph, de Toledano (1997). Notes from the underground: the Whittaker Chambers--Ralph de Toledano letters, 1949-1960. Regnery.
  30. Hiss, Tony (1999). The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir. Alfred E. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40127-X.
  31. Olmsted, Kathryn S. (2002). Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2739-8.
  32. Swan, Patrick, ed. (2003). Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul. ISI Books. ISBN 1-882926-91-9.
  33. Ruddy, T. Michael (2004). The Alger Hiss Espionage Case. Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 0-15-508560-3.
  34. White, G. Edward (2005). Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-518255-3.
  35. Tanenhaus, Sam (2007). An Un-American Life: The Case of Whittaker Chambers. Old Street Publishing (UK). ISBN 978-1-905847-07-5.
  36. Hartshorn, L. (2013). Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the case that ignited McCarthyism. McFarland.
  37. Craig, R. Bruce (2013). The Apprenticeship of Alger Hiss. Now and Then Reader.
  38. Storrs, Landon R.Y. (2015). The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left. Princeton University Press.
  39. Brady, Joan (2017). Alger Hiss: Framed: A New Look at the Case That Made Nixon Famous. Arcade.
  40. Snyder, K (2017). The Witness and the President. Kindle Book.
  41. White, John Kenneth (2019). Still Seeing Red: How The Cold War Shapes The New American Politics. Routledge.
  42. Kisseloff, Jeff (2025). Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss. Kansas University Press.

Articles on Hiss case

Film on Hiss case

Articles or chapters on Chambers

  1. Chambers, David (20 March 2007). "Different Legal Risks In Hiss, Libby Cases". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. Vidal, Elena Maria (28 April 2011). "History's Witness: His grandson sets the record straight about Whittaker Chambers". The American Conservative. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. Chambers, David (2012). "The Baffling Harry White". History News Network. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

Chambers and Soviet espionage

Novels that include characters based on Chambers

References

  1. ↑ Chambers, Whittaker (19 September 1952). "The Sanity of St. Benedict". Commonweal. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Chambers, Whittaker (April 1931). "Can You Make Out Their Voices" (PDF). New Masses: 7–13. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Chambers, Whittaker (October 1931). "You Have Seen the Heads" (PDF). New Masses: 14–17. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Chambers, Whittaker (April 1931). "Our Comrade Munn" (PDF). New Masses: 14–16. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  5. ↑ Chambers, Whittaker (December 1931). "The Death of the Communists" (PDF). New Masses: 10–12. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Foreign News: The Ghosts on the Roof". Time. 5 March 1945. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Books: Problem of the Century". Time. 25 February 1946. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "Religion: In Egypt Land". Time. 30 December 1946. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "Education: The Challenge". Time. 7 March 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  10. ↑ "Books: Circles of Perdition". Time. 8 December 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  11. ↑ "Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age". Time. 8 December 1947. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

See also