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== Whittaker Chambers ==

== Whittaker Chambers ==

[[Whittaker Chambers]] is best known for his public exposure of [[Alger Hiss]], the ranking official of the [[United States]] [[Department of State]] who participated materially in the creation of the [[United Nations]], as an agent of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]. But toward the end of his life, Chambers served as senior editor of ''[[National Review]]''. In that capacity he wrote what stands today as the most infamous review ever written of ''Atlas Shrugged''. He titled this review, "Big Sister Is Watching You."<ref name=chambers>Chambers W, "Big Sister Is Watching You," ''National Review'', December 28, 1957. Hosted at National Review Online, published January 5, 2005. Accessed May 1, 2009. <http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback200501050715.asp></ref>

[[Whittaker Chambers]] is best known for his public exposure of [[Alger Hiss]], the ranking official of the [[United States]] [[Department of State]] who participated materially in the creation of the [[United Nations]], as an agent of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]. But toward the end of his life, Chambers served as senior editor of ''[[National Review]]''. In that capacity he wrote what stands today as the most infamous review ever written of ''Atlas Shrugged''. He titled this review, "Big Sister Is Watching You."<ref name=chambers>Chambers W, "Big Sister Is Watching You," ''National Review'', December 28, 1957. Hosted at National Review Online, published January 5, 2005. Accessed May 1, 2009. <http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/222482/big-sister-watching-you/flashback></ref>

Chambers considered the novel a caricature of the political situation in and of the [[United States]] in the year of publication. He assumed, perhaps correctly, that Rand intended to set the book at a time ''contemporary with its publication.'' (See [[Atlas Shrugged#Time setting]] for details.) And so he believed Rand guilty of wild, unjustifiable exaggeration of the types of policies that [[liberal]] politicians were recommending (and in some jurisdictions, enacting) at the time, and of their deleterious effects.

Chambers considered the novel a caricature of the political situation in and of the [[United States]] in the year of publication. He assumed, perhaps correctly, that Rand intended to set the book at a time ''contemporary with its publication.'' (See [[Atlas Shrugged#Time setting]] for details.) And so he believed Rand guilty of wild, unjustifiable exaggeration of the types of policies that [[liberal]] politicians were recommending (and in some jurisdictions, enacting) at the time, and of their deleterious effects.