page_title: John Chabot Smith
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Chabot Smith / Works
caption_attribution_description: Alger Hiss, American statesman accused of espionage
context_page_description: John Chabot Smith was an American journalist and author, best known for Alger Hiss: The True Story, an account sympathetic to Hiss.
context_section_description: Of his book on Alger Hiss, Kirkus noted:  "Don't expect bombshells. The hard evidence is slow in coming and can be bewilderingly technical when it come."  According to Allen Weinstein (whose book Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case, published in 1978, had different findings), "Smith adopted elements from a least six previous theories.  The Western Journal of Speech Communications assessed the book as "thoroughly sympathetic" Hiss.
caption: Alger Hiss (1950), (alleged) ex-Soviet spy about whom Smith wrote his best known book
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