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Whittaker Chambers

Americans have been invading one another’s privacy for political gain since before the Revolution.

Everyone following the recent White House sex scandal must have felt the uneasy mixture of titillation and guilt that is always present when reading other people’s mail or eavesdropping on a private conversation.
Almost 50 years after Whittaker Chambers first told a government official that Alger Hiss was a communist, and 40 years after Chambers’ charge was finally made public, Hiss has written Recollections of a Life, billed by its publisher as

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