A review by bobbo49
Witness by Whittaker Chambers

4.0

A very long historical read, Chamber's account of his own attraction to, and defection from, Communism, and ultimately, the Alger Hiss case it provoked. This was my dad's copy all underlined and marked up in July 1952 when he read it at age 33. Wish I had read it when he was alive, because it helps me understand a bit better both his own views about the Cold War (and the times when it raged hottest), and his life-long attraction to Richard Nixon (the primary mover in the Congressional investigation of Chambers and Hiss that led to Hiss' perjury conviction and incarceration) as a Cold Warrior.