page_title: Whittaker Chambers
section_title: National Review
hierarchical_section_title: Whittaker Chambers / Career / National Review
caption_attribution_description: English: L. Brent Bozell and William F. Buckley, Jr. seated on couch with copy of their book "McCarthy and His Enemies" Los Angeles, Calif., 1954
context_page_description: Whittaker Chambers, was an American writer-editor, who, after early years as a member of the Communist Party member and Soviet spy, defected from the Soviet underground, worked for Time magazine, and then testified about the Ware group in what became the Hiss case for perjury, often referred to as the trial of the century, all described in his 1952 memoir Witness. Afterwards, he worked as a senior editor at National Review. US President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
context_section_description: 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). The most widely-cited article to date is a scathing review, "Big Sister is Watching You," of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
  In 1959, after resigning from National Review, Chambers and his wife embarked on a visit to Europe, the highlight of which was a meeting with Arthur Koestler and Margarete Buber-Neumann at Koestler's home in Austria. That fall, he recommenced studies at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in Westminster, Maryland.
caption: right: William F. Buckley Jr., left: L. Brent Bozell Jr. Buckley in 1954 first asked Chambers to endorse their book on Joseph McCarthy.
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