“Witness” is a remarkable book and a real eye-opener. For example, the U.S. media has ALWAYS been kommie since at least the Bolshevik revolution, and such is by no means a recent phenomena.
At any rate, “Witness” is on the must-read short list for all well-informed conservatives.
If I remember correctly, William F. Buckley writes an intro to the book crediting Chambers with galvanizing Buckley’s conservatism beliefs.
That is one of the two or three books I would recommend to every bright high school student.
As you can see from my Freep Page, he has been a hero of my for quite some time. He stood up to be counted.
It was his book that nailed the coffin on liberalism for me.
50+ years difference, exactly the same tactics they use.
Great opening line and the following paragraph is so true!
A Few Books the must be read:
The Road to Serfdom — Hayek
Witness — Chambers
Radical Son — Horowitz
The Conservative Mind — Kirk
Reflections on the Revolution in France — Burke
The Constitution of Liberty — Hayek
A Conflict of Visions — Sowell
The Vision of the Anointed — Sowell
The Politics of Prudence — Kirk
Freedom and Virtue — Carey
The Roots of American Order — Kirk
Ideas have Consequences — Weaver
I’ll Take My Stand — various
Edmund Burke, A Genius Reconsidered — Kirk
Democracy in America — De Tocqueville (Mansfield edited ed.)
The Quest for Community — Nisbet
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