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Author Chambers, Whittaker.

Title Ghosts on the roof : selected essays / Whittaker Chambers ; edited by Terry Teachout ; with a new introduction by Milton Hindus
Published New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, [1996]
©1996

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 MELB  810.52 C4456 A1/T  AVAILABLE
Description xli, 361 pages ; 23 cm
Series Library of conservative thought
Library of conservative thought.
Contents Introduction: The Forgotten Career of Whittaker Chambers -- Can You Make Out Their Voices (1931) -- You Have Seen the Heads (1931) -- Our Comrade Munn (1931) -- Death of the Communists (1931) -- Intelligence Report (1939) -- Night Thoughts (1939) -- The New Pictures: "Ninothchka" (1939) -- The New Pictures: "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) -- The Revolt of the Intellectuals (1941) -- Silence, Exile & Death (1941) -- Peace & the Papacy (1943) -- Historian and History Maker (1944) -- Literay Autolysis (1944) -- Santayana, Poet of Dissolution (1944) -- The Anatomy of Fascism (1944) -- Area of Decision (1944) -- Crisis (1944) -- The Ghosts on the Roof (1945) -- The Old Deal (1945) -- Christmas 1945 (1945) -- Problem of the Century (1946) -- Crossroads (1946) -- In Egypt Land (1946) -- The Challenge (1947) -- The Tragic Sense of Life (1947) -- Circles of Perdition (1947) -- The Devil (1948) -- Dr. Crankley's Children (1948) -- Faith for a Lenten Age (1948) -- The Middle Ages (1947)
Medieval Life (1947) -- The Glory of Venice (1947) -- The Age of Enlightenment (1947) -- The Edwardians (1947) -- Age of Exploration (1948) -- The Protestant Revolution (1948) -- The Sanity of St. Benedict (1952) -- Is Academic Freedom in Danger? (1953) -- The End of a Dark Age Ushers in New Dangers (1956) -- Soviet Strategy in the Middle East (1957) -- The Coming Struggle for Outer Space (1957) -- A Westminster Letter: The Left Undestand the Left (1957) -- A Westminster Letter: "To Temporize Is Death" (1957) -- Big Sister Is Watching You (1957) -- A Westminster Letter: Springhead to Springhead (1958)
Notes Collection of essays, articles, reviews, and short stories originally published in various periodicals, 1931-1959
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway, 1989. With new introd
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Chambers, Whittaker -- Political and social views.
Civilization, Western.
History, Modern -- 20th century.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Author Teachout, Terry.
LC no. 95049142
ISBN 1560008350 (acid-free paper)