| | After such a series of tragic losses, suggested Hiss's son, Alger might have found himself "susceptible, as some may have been, to the seeming solidarity offered by the Communist Party."<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ugT4OU18kPsC The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, p. 141</ref> Among the others who might have been susceptible was Hiss's one-time tenant, [[Whittaker Chambers]], who wrote of the suicide of his own brother at age 21: | | After such a series of tragic losses, suggested Hiss's son, Alger might have found himself "susceptible, as some may have been, to the seeming solidarity offered by the Communist Party."<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ugT4OU18kPsC The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, p. 141</ref> Among the others who might have been susceptible was Hiss's one-time tenant, [[Whittaker Chambers]], who wrote of the suicide of his own brother at age 21: |
| − | {{cquote|[M]y brother's death stunned me ... this is the point at which I became a thorough Communist. I felt that any society which could result in the death of a boy like my brother was wrong and I was at war with it. This was the beginning of my fanaticism.<ref>Michael Kimmage, ''[ The conservative turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the lessons of anti-communism]'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) ISBN 0674032586, p. 41(</ref>}} | + | {{cquote|[M]y brother's death stunned me ... this is the point at which I became a thorough Communist. I felt that any society which could result in the death of a boy like my brother was wrong and I was at war with it. This was the beginning of my fanaticism.<ref>Michael Kimmage, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=3HUvm91KDn8C The conservative turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the lessons of anti-communism]'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) ISBN 0674032586, p. 41(</ref>}} |