Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy

Name: Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy
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ISBN: 9780195182552

ISBN-10: 0195182553

ISBN-13: 9780195182552

Edition: 2005

Authors: G. Edward White

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For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many minds. Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class childhood in Baltimore and his brilliant success at Harvard to his later career as a self-made martyr to McCarthyism--to paint a fascinating portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie. White catalogs the evidence that proved Hiss's guilt, from Whittaker…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.82" wide x 5.91" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



Family and Marriage



Exposure



Prison



The Campaign for Vindication



The Campaign Gains Momentum



The Intervention of Allen Weinstein



The Russian Connection



Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars


Afterword


Notes


Index