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Book Review of  The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg  by John Wexley

Download or read book Review of The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg by John Wexley written by Francis D. Wormuth and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Judgement of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Download or read book The Judgement of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg written by John Wexley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

Download or read book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).

Book The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Download or read book The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg written by John Wexley and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rosenbergs were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union classified information on the Manhattan Project. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953.

Book Executing the Rosenbergs

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  • Author : Lori Clune
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-08
  • ISBN : 0190265906
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Executing the Rosenbergs written by Lori Clune and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper editorials, and protests in countries around the world. Nevertheless, the Rosenbergs were executed after years of appeals, making them the only civilians ever put to death for conspiracy-related activities. Yet even after their executions, protests continued. The Rosenberg case quickly transformed into legend, while the media spotlight shifted to their two orphaned sons. In Executing the Rosenbergs, Lori Clune demonstrates that the Rosenberg case played a pivotal role in the world's perception of the United States. Based on newly discovered documents from the State Department, Clune narrates the widespread dissent against the Rosenberg decision in 80 cities and 48 countries. Even as the Truman and Eisenhower administrations attempted to turn the case into pro-democracy propaganda, U.S. allies and potential allies questioned whether the United States had the moral authority to win the Cold War. Meanwhile, the death of Stalin in 1953 also raised the stakes of the executions; without a clear hero and villain, the struggle between democracy and communism shifted into morally ambiguous terrain. Transcending questions of guilt or innocence, Clune weaves the case -and its aftermath -into the fabric of the Cold War, revealing its far-reaching global effects. An original approach to one of the most fascinating episodes in Cold War history, Executing the Rosenbergs broadens a quintessentially American story into a global one.

Book The Rosenberg Letters

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  • Author : Michael Meeropol
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-26
  • ISBN : 1135791147
  • Pages : 793 pages

Download or read book The Rosenberg Letters written by Michael Meeropol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Compiled and transcribed from 1950-1953, this book contains the letters of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during their prison correspondence with surrounding text written and edited by one of their sons. Meeropol states their belief that a complete edition of these letters would be useful for people interested in gaining as full an understanding as possible of the Rosenbergs as human beings.

Book The Rosenberg File

Download or read book The Rosenberg File written by Ronald Radosh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs events leading up to the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of espionage, features an analysis of the trial, and includes evidence that has come to light since their conviction and execution.

Book New World Review

Download or read book New World Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imprisoned by the Past

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  • Author : Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199967938
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Imprisoned by the Past written by Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, the United States Supreme Court decided a case that could have ended the death penalty in the United States. Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty examines the long history of the American death penalty and its connection to the case of Warren McCleskey, revealing how that case marked a turning point for the history of the death penalty. In this book, Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier explores one of the most important Supreme Court cases in history, a case that raised important questions about race and punishment, and ultimately changed the way we understand the death penalty today. McCleskey's case resulted in one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in U.S. history, where the Court confronted evidence of racial discrimination in the administration of capital punishment. The case currently marks the last time that the Supreme Court had a realistic chance of completely striking down capital punishment. As such, the case also marked a turning point in the death penalty debate in the country. Going back nearly four centuries, this book connects McCleskey's life and crime to the issues that have haunted the American death penalty debate since the first executions by early settlers through the modern twenty-first century death penalty. Imprisoned by the Past ties together three unique American stories. First, the book considers the changing American death penalty across centuries where drastic changes have occurred in the last fifty years. Second, the book discusses the role that race played in that history. And third, the book tells the story of Warren McCleskey and how his life and legal case brought together the other two narratives.

Book Strategy and Tactics of World Communism

Download or read book Strategy and Tactics of World Communism written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Judgment and Mercy

Download or read book Judgment and Mercy written by Martin J. Siegel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irving Robert Kaufman, the judge infamous for condemning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage. In 1951, world attention fixed on Kaufman's courtroom as its ambitious young occupant stridently blamed the Rosenbergs for the Korean War. To many, the harsh sentences and their preening author left an enduring stain on American justice. But then the judge from Cold War central casting became something unexpected: one of the most illustrious progressive jurists of his day. Upending the simplistic portrait of Judge Kaufman as a McCarthyite villain, Siegel shows how his pathbreaking decisions desegregated a Northern school for the first time, liberalized the insanity defense, reformed Attica-era prisons, spared John Lennon from politically motivated deportation, expanded free speech, brought foreign torturers to justice, and more. Still, the Rosenberg controversy lingered. Decades later, changing times and revelations of judicial misconduct put Kaufman back under siege. Picketers dogged his footsteps as critics demanded impeachment. And tragedy stalked his family, attributed in part to the long ordeal. Instead of propelling him to the Supreme Court, as Kaufman once hoped, the case haunted him to the end. Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy brings to life a complex man by turns tyrannical and warm, paranoid and altruistic, while revealing intramural Jewish battles over assimilation, class, and patriotism. Siegel, who served as Kaufman's last law clerk, traces the evolution of American law and politics in the twentieth century and shows how a judge unable to summon mercy for the Rosenbergs nonetheless helped expand freedom for all.

Book American Prophet

Download or read book American Prophet written by Peter Richardson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Prophet is the biography on the brilliant life and career of a great American thinker and writer - Carey McWilliams." "McWilliams's life story reveals a figure thoroughly engaged with the issues of his time. Author Peter Richardson interweaves correspondence, diary notes, published writings, and McWilliams's own and others' observations on a colorful and influential cast of characters from Hollywood, New York, Washington, D.C., and the American West. Among those making an appearance are Louis Adamic, John Fante, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, H. L. Mencken (McWilliams's mentor and role model), Richard Nixon, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Studs Terkel, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Towne, and more." "American Prophet illustrates the arc of McWilliams's life from his early literary journalism through his legal and political activism, his stint in state government, and his two decades as editor of The Nation. Not only will this book introduce McWilliams to a new generation of readers, it will also assure his place as one of our most influential and prescient progressive political writers."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Strategy and Tactics of World Communism  The significance of the Matusow case

Download or read book Strategy and Tactics of World Communism The significance of the Matusow case written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Review Digest

Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.

Book The American Paradox

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  • Author : Patrick J. Gallo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780882582054
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The American Paradox written by Patrick J. Gallo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Press  the Rosenbergs  and the Cold War

Download or read book The Press the Rosenbergs and the Cold War written by John Neville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-09-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of cold war agenda setting in relation to the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spy case. Its primary interest is with press coverage of the case from 1950 to 1953, although the historical focus of the case extends before and beyond those years. The purpose of the book is not to debate the Rosenbergs' guilt or innocence, but rather to provide a fresh view of the case in its most political terms: news coverage filtered through the dynamics of cold war patriotism. A large sample of U.S. and foreign newspapers and magazines was monitored to determine if the Rosenbergs were victims of sensational pretrial and during-trial newspaper publicity. Neville also determines if the press reported on the claims of a U.S. left-wing newspaper, the National Guardian, that the Rosenbergs were framed by the U.S. government with the complicity of the news media. His conclusions question whether the mainstream press and news media ignore issues of justice for radicals in time of war and political crisis.

Book The Covert Sphere

Download or read book The Covert Sphere written by Timothy Melley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four-a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime government spend valuable resources on a melodrama of covert operations? The answer, according to Timothy Melley, is not simply that fiction has real political effects but that, since the Cold War, fiction has become integral to the growth of national security as a concept and a transformation of democracy. In The Covert Sphere, Melley links this cultural shift to the birth of the national security state in 1947. As the United States developed a vast infrastructure of clandestine organizations, it shielded policy from the public sphere and gave rise to a new cultural imaginary, "the covert sphere." One of the surprising consequences of state secrecy is that citizens must rely substantially on fiction to "know," or imagine, their nation's foreign policy. The potent combination of institutional secrecy and public fascination with the secret work of the state was instrumental in fostering the culture of suspicion and uncertainty that has plagued American society ever since-and, Melley argues, that would eventually find its fullest expression in postmodernism. The Covert Sphere traces these consequences from the Korean War through the War on Terror, examining how a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture. Melley interweaves Cold War history with political theory and original readings of films, television dramas, and popular entertainments-from The Manchurian Candidate through 24-as well as influential writing by Margaret Atwood, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, E. L. Doctorow, Michael Herr, Denis Johnson, Norman Mailer, Tim O'Brien, and many others.