Chambers's National Reading Books

Chambers's National Reading Books
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368176358

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Facts

Facts
Author: John Chambers
Publisher: Chambers
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2005
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780550100962

From Nobel Prize winners to national holidays around the world, Chambers Super-Mini Book of Facts puts essential facts and figures at users’ fingertips. This latest edition has been fully revised to incorporate significant recent world events, such as political changes and sports results. With over 90,000 facts covering 240 fields of interest, along with biographies for more than 1,400 prominent people, this information-packed reference is the most comprehensive little reference book available.

Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers
Author: Sam Tanenhaus
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 661
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307789268

Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in startling new information about Chambers's days as New York's "hottest literary Bolshevik"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at Time magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. Whittaker Chambers goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbably twists and turns, and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions. A rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, Whittaker Chambers is a vivid tapestry of 20th century history.

Tell Me

Tell Me
Author: Aidan Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780903355544

Dance on My Grave

Dance on My Grave
Author: Aidan Chambers
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780064405799

Hal's summer affair with Barry Goldman ends tragically when Hal discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than his friend.

Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers
Author: Richard M. Reinsch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2023-08-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 168451665X

What Chambers Can Teach Us Whittaker Chambers is rightly remembered for his pivotal role in the electrifying Alger Hiss spy case. But as Richard Reinsch reminds us in this volume of the acclaimed Library of Modern Thinkers series, Chambers was more than just a government informant; he was a profoundly important thinker who grappled with the nature of modern man's predicaments. Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary shows that Chambers's thought posed—and still poses—a challenge to American conservatism and its typical focus on markets and small government. In his journalism, essays, personal correspondence with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr., and landmark autobiographical tome Witness, Chambers engaged more broadly, analyzing the fundamental question of who man is and the classical and spiritual foundations of civilization. Defying conventional thinking, Reinsch argues that the former Communist spy may have been more right than wrong when he predicted that the West would lose the Cold War. While the Soviets' Communist system did of course collapse, the spiritual and philosophical sickness that Chambers identified, Reinsch suggests, has not been cured.