It's unquestionably one of the biggest pop-culture phenomenons of all time, with an ever-expanding fanbase. And those who were fans from the beginning have a lot of memories - some good, some not so good. Sam Whittaker, a writer and long-time fanboy, opens up the past and explores what it was like to grow up with Star Wars, even through the hard times. Come along on a journey into the past - maybe not to a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, but close enough to make the adventure worth it.
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in startling new information about Chambers's days as New York's "hottest literary Bolshevik"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at Time magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. Whittaker Chambers goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbably twists and turns, and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions. A rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, Whittaker Chambers is a vivid tapestry of 20th century history.
Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is--quite literally--authoring his own downfall. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, this novel is a collection of everything Whittaker commits to paper over the course of four critical months. Beginning in July, during the economic hardships of the Nixon era, we witness our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, and tormented by his ex-wife. Determined to redeem his failures and eviscerate his enemies, Whittaker hatches a grand plan. But as winter nears, his difficulties accumulate, and the disorder of his life threatens to overwhelm him. As his hold on reality weakens and his schemes grow wilder, his self-image as a placid and slow-moving sloth evolves into that of a bizarre and frantic creature driven mad by solitude. In this tragicomic portrait of a literary life, Sam Savage proves that all the evidence is in the writing, that all the world is, indeed, a stage, and that escape from the mind's prison requires a command performance.
The author charts the story of Whittaker Chambers, whose transformation from Communist agent to anti-Communist witness climaxed in 1948, when he testified against Alger Hiss, a senior U.S. State Department official, in the controversial trial that shook and changed America.
How far would you run? On a simple farm, far outside of town lived a man with his family... and with his secrets. Violent secrets. When a rising tide of war approaches, those secrets see the light of day, and no one around him is safe. He will take his wife and twin sons from their homestead and flee to escape the violence of his past and his future. But following him is something far worse than his secrets. In the dark he will come face-to-face with the Black Whisper - a creature of evil magic with the power to steal the essence of life.If you like Terry Goodkind or Robert Jordan, you'll love "The Black Whisper." It's the digestible opening salvo in a new fantasy War epic. Click the BUY NOW button at the top and enter Tag's world.
The Acts of the Apostles chronicles the life of the early Church. But was that the end of the story? Aren't we living out the story of God ad humanity in our lives today? In fact, what if someone wrote a New Book of Acts? What would that be like? What if someone wrote it about you? Would you be willing to let others read it, or would you be embarrassed? In this book Sam Whittaker describes the characteristics of a life ready to write a new book of Acts with all its movements.
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