Search Results: the web of subversion by james burnham

Boston, Massachusetts: Western Island Publisher, 1965. Book. Good +. Trade Paperback. Good + trade paperback. May be some rubbing, bumping or closed tears to edges and corners of the book. Overall in good reading condition..

Belmont, MA: Western Islands, 1965. 214 pages. Indentations in the text pages on the back cover, both horizontally and vertically. Small nick in the cover at the top of the spine.. American Library Edition. Soft Cover. Fair to Good. 4.25 x 7. Soviet Espionage.

Western Islands, 1965 Book is in Very Good condition. Pages tanning. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

The Americanist Library, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paperback. Scuffed, scratched and creased wraps. Scraped cover edges. Bumped corner tips. Age-toned pages. Initials on half title page. Good binding. Nice reading copy. 214 pages.

Belmont, MA: American Opinion, 1961. 127 pages. Republication of the John Day Company edition of 1954. Individuals whose names were prominent in the investigation included Elilzabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, Frank V. Coe, Harold Glasser, Jacob Golos, Alger Hiss, Irving Kaplan, Charles Kramer, Mary Stalcup Markward, Hede Massing, Victor Perlo, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, William Ullmann, Henry Julian Wadleigh, David Weintraub, Harry Dexter White and Nathan Witt.. Soft Cover. Good. 6 x 9. American Opinion Reprint Serie.

Americanist Library/Wester Islands , 1965. Paperback. Good Condition.

New York: The John Day Company, 1959. Hardcover. Good. Grey clothboards with slight wear to headband and tail. Owner's name inside endpaper. Tihjt, clean copy. January 2024 Box 1

New York 1954 first edition. John Day. Hardcover octavo. Grey papercovered boards with red lettering on spine and front panel. 248p. Text very lightly toned; text clean; binding secure ; hinges not cracked. VG light fraying of spine ends. no dj. .

New York: The John Day Company, 1954. First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor wear to dust jacket, else fine.. First edition of James Burnham's (1905-1987) classic review of what various investigating committees had discovered regarding the infiltration of the US government by communist espionage networks. Published on the heels of Whittaker Chambers' Witness (1952)-which recounted Chambers' years as a domestic Soviet spy, his subsequent defection from communism, and his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s-Burnham's The Web of Subversion lucidly narrates the surprising facts and conclusions drawn from the many congressional probes into communist espionage cells, methods, and activities in the US. In a manner reminiscent of his journalistic counterpart, the intrepid John T. Flynn, Burnham set himself the task of distilling from the mountains of investigative materials a clear and coherent accounting of communism's… Read More