Английская Википедия:Friendship and Fratricide

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Friendship and Fratricide, an Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss is a 1967 book by psychoanalyst Meyer A. Zeligs.[1][2][3] In his work, Zeligs argued that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality who had framed Alger Hiss.[4]

Background

Zeligs was a 1928 graduate of the University of Cincinnati and a 1932 graduate of its Medical School, before serving as medical officer in the US Navy during World War II.[5][6]

On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee that Alger Hiss, an American government official, had secretly been a Communist while in federal service.[7]

Although Chambers refused to see Zeligs, the author did correspond with Hiss.[5][8]

Reaction

Friendship and Fratricide was widely reviewed.[9][10][11] In 1978, The New York Times reflected that the work "stirred controversy when it was published in 1967 with the conclusion that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality".[5][12]

Writing in the Archive of General Psychiatry, one contemporary reviewer described the book as "almost impossible to put down".[13] Another reviewer characterized the work as a novel genre in an article entitled "The Potential of Psychoanalytic Biography".[14] The Harvard Crimson opined that work "only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime"[15] Time reviewed the book under the title "Slander of a Dead Man"[16] In the 1999 work "The Strange Case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers", the author argues that "Zeligs was addressing himself to a genuine psychological riddle in writing Friendship and Fratricide."

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