National Book Awards - Nonfiction - 1950s
Explore the definitive National Book Award-winning nonfiction of the 1950s, featuring Witness by Whittaker Chambers and Richard the Third. Discover classic history, biographies, and Cold War-era literature that shaped American letters.
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Witness
by Whittaker Chambers
The author recounts the forces that shaped his life, describes his involvement with the Communist Party, and explains the reasons for his identification of Alger Hiss as a Communist agent.
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Richard the Third
by Paul Murray Kendall
"The best biography of Richard III that has been written."—A. L. Rowse, Chicago Tribune Paul Murray Kendall's masterful account of the life of England's King Richard III has remained the standard biography of this controversial figure.
