ask/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers?o=2801&qsrc=999 After the Hiss case Chambers had resigned from Time in December 1948.[3] After the Hiss Case, he wrote a few articles for Fortune, Life, and Look magazines. In 1952, Chamberss book Witness was published to widespread acclaim.[32][33][34][35] The book was a combination of autobiography and a warning about the dangers of Communism. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called it a powerful book.[36] Ronald Reagan credited the book as the inspiration behind his conversion from a New Deal Democrat to a conservative Republican.[29] Witness was a bestseller for more than a year[36] and helped pay off Chambers legal debts, though bills lingered (as Odysseus was beset by a ghost).[37] In 1955, William F. Buckley, Jr. started the magazine National Review, and Chambers worked there as senior editor, publishing articles there for a little over a year and a half (October 1957 - June 1959).[38] The most widely cited article to date[39][40][41][42][43] is a scathing review, Big Sister is Watching You, of Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged.[44][45][46] In 1959, after resigning from National Review, Chambers and his wife visited Europe, the highlight of which was a meeting with Arthur Koestler and Margarete Buber-Neumann at Koestlers home in Austria.[37] That Fall, he recommenced studies at Western Maryland College (new McDaniel College) in Westminster, MD.[47]
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