Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in
modern American history a former Communist spy who left the party,
testified against Alger Hiss before the House Un-American
Activities Committee, and wrote a classic autobiography, Witness.
Dismissed by some as a crank, reviled by others as a traitor,
Chambers still looms as a Dostoevskian figure over three decades
after his death in 1961. A man of profound pessimism, rare vision,
and remarkable literary talents, his continuing importance was
attested to when Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded him the Medal
of Freedom in 1984. Ghosts on the Roof, originally published in
1989, brings together more than fifty short stories, essays,
articles, and reviews that originally appeared in Time, Life,
National Review, Commonweal, The American Mercury, and the New
Masses. Included are essays on Karl Marx, Reinhold Niebuhr, James
Joyce, Franz Kafka, George Santayana, Dame Rebecca West, Ayn Rand,
and Greta Garbo. These show Chambers at his best, as a peerless
historian of ideas.
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