Books
Chambers, Whittaker, Witness (1952).
[Highly recommended: superb autobiography.]
 
Cook, Fred, The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss (William Morrow, 1958).
 
Cooke, Alistair, A Generation on Trial: USA v Alger Hiss (Knopf, 1982).
 
Geis, Gilbert & Bienen, Leigh, Crimes of the Century (Northeastern Univ. Press, 1998).
 
Hiss, Alger, In the Court of Public Opinion (Knopf, 1957).
 
Hiss, Alger, Recollections of a Life (Henry Holt, 1988).
 
Hiss, Tony, Laughing Last: Alger Hiss by Tony Hiss (Houghton Mifflin, 1977).
 
Hiss, Tony, The View from Alger's Window (1998).
 
Nixon, Richard, Six Crises (Pocket Books, 1962).
 
Smith, Chabot, Alger Hiss, The True Story (Holt, Rinehart, 1976).
 
Swan, Patrick (Ed.), Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2003).
[Recommended: an excellent collection of essays on the Hiss case, spanning forty years.]
 
Tanenhaus, Sam, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Random House, 1998).
 
Weinstein, Allen, Perjury: The Hiss Chambers Case (Random House, Second edition, 1997).
[Highly recommended: most comprehensive and detailed analysis of evidence in the Hiss case.]
 
G. Edward White, Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy (Oxford, 2004.
[Recommended]
 
Zeligs, Meyer, Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss (1967).

 

Primary Sources

U. S. Congress, House, Committee on Un-American Activities: Hearings Regarding Communist Espionage in the United States Government, July-September 1948 (Government Printing Office, 1948).

U. S. Congress, House, Committee on Un-American Activities: Hearings Regarding Communist Espionage in the United States Government, Part 2, December 1948 (Government Printing Office, 1948).

United States v Alger Hiss, 185 F. 2d 822 (Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 1950).

United States v Alger Hiss, Vols. I-IX (Sayre, Pa: Murrelle, 1950)(trial transcript).

In Re Alger Hiss: Petition for a Writ of Coram Nobis (Hill & Wang, 1979-80)(Hiss's petition to overturn his conviction).

National Archives, Grand Jury Documents in the Alger Hiss Case (released Oct. 10, 1999).

Periodicals

Packer, Herbert, "A Tale of Two Typewriters," Stanford Law Review 10 (1958), pp. 409-449.

Video

Lowenthal, John, The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980).

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