Witness (memoir)

Witness
Witness book cover
Cover of the first American edition
AuthorWhittaker Chambers
CountryUnited States of America
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEspionage, communism
GenreMemoir
PublisherRandom House, Regnery Publishing
Publication date
May 1952
Pages799 (body)
Awards1953 National Book Award finalist for nonfiction
324.273/75/092 B
LC ClassE743.5 .C47
Followed byCold Friday (1964) 
Websitehttps://whittakerchambers.org/

Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal indictment against Alger Hiss and two trials in 1949.[1][2]

  1. ^ Chambers, Whittaker (May 1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 3–24 (foreword), 25–90 (defection), 91–190 (family), 191–200 (indoctrination), 201–274 (WPA/CPUSA), 275–324 (1st apparatus), 325–330 (family), 331–404 (2nd apparatus), 405–448 (Bykov), 449–452 (defection), 453–528 (Time magazine), 529–698 (Hiss Case 1), 699–704 (bridge), 705–786 (Hiss Case 2), 787–796 (1949 trials), 797–799 (afterword). ISBN 9780394452333. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  2. ^ "Witness". WhittakerChambers.org. Retrieved October 13, 2021.

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