Sam Tanenhaus papers, 1901-1998.

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Sam Tanenhaus papers, 1901-1998.

Writings, correspondence, trial transcripts, memoranda, notes, and printed matter, relating to the life of Whittaker Chambers and to the Alger Hiss espionage case. Used as research material for the book by Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (New York, 1997). Includes letters by Chambers.

69 ms. boxes, 4 oversize boxes.

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Hiss, Alger

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Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated at Baltimore City College, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School. During the new Deal period he worked as an attorney at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in the Solicitor General's Office at the Justice Department, as Assistant Secretary of State and in other positions in the State Department, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945. He served as Secretary General of the United...

Chambers, Whittaker

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Tanenhaus, Sam.

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American historian. From the description of Sam Tanenhaus papers, 1901-1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122541798 ...