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Book The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss

Download or read book The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss written by Fred J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shorter version ... appeared in the Nation under the title, Hiss: new perspectives on the strangest case of our time.

Book The Unfinished History of Alger Hiss

Download or read book The Unfinished History of Alger Hiss written by Fred J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss

Download or read book The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss written by Fred J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perjury

Download or read book Perjury written by Allen Weinstein and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 3, 1948, "Time" magazine editor Whittaker Chambers made a stunning allegation before the House Un-American Activities Committee: Alger Hiss, former high-ranking State Department official, had served with him in the Communist underground. Hiss's defense was the gripping story of its day, and the question of his guilt remains an enigma. This book provides fascinating insights into the case and into the American political life of the 1930s and 1940s. of photos.

Book Alger Hiss  Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism

Download or read book Alger Hiss Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism written by Lewis Hartshorn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was convicted of perjury after two long trials. Chambers claimed that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 1938 for transmittal to the Soviet Union. Hiss denied the charges but was found guilty at his second trial (the jury could not reach a decision in the first). Hiss was not charged with espionage because of the statute of limitations. The main focus of this narrative concentrates on the early months of the affair, from August 1948 when Chambers appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and denounced Hiss and several others as underground Communists, to the following December when Hiss was indicted for perjury. The truth emerges as the story unfolds, based in part on grand jury records unsealed by court order in 1999, leading to the conclusion that the stories Whittaker Chambers told the authorities and later published about himself and Alger Hiss in the Communist underground are completely fraudulent.

Book The Alger Hiss Trial

Download or read book The Alger Hiss Trial written by Doreen Rappaport and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconstruction of the Alger Hiss trial, using testimony from edited transcripts of the trial, during which the reader can assume the role of juror. Newly updated 2012.

Book The True Story of Alger Hiss

Download or read book The True Story of Alger Hiss written by John Chabot Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book True Believer

Download or read book True Believer written by Kati Marton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'True Believer' is a suspenseful real-life spy thriller of danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery and pure evil with a plot twist worthy of John Le Carre.

Book Alger Hiss

Download or read book Alger Hiss written by John Chabot Smith and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America s Dreyfus

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  • Author : Joan Brady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-09-10
  • ISBN : 9780993153327
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book America s Dreyfus written by Joan Brady and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young dancer of 18, Joan Brady met Alger Hiss, recently released from jail after a perjury trial which had made headlines for months in the US. Over the following 35 years of friendship she had no basis for questioning the verdict, but her growing knowledge of Hiss himself, and the puzzles raised by his own reactions to his trial and imprisonment led her, after Hiss's death, to delve back into the transcripts of the hearings and into FBI files about the case. The story Brady tells in this book overturns the received view that Hiss was a spy and a former communist who lied in court. But more surprising still is her analysis of how Richard Nixon's rise to fame, culminating in the US presidency, was based on the Hiss case, which Nixon instigated and conducted to create anti-communist hysteria and aid him in his election campaigns.

Book How We Forgot the Cold War

Download or read book How We Forgot the Cold War written by Jon Wiener and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here’s a book that would've split the sides of Thucydides. Wiener’s magical mystery tour of Cold War museums is simultaneously hilarious and the best thing ever written on public history and its contestation.“ —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz “Jon Wiener, an astute observer of how history is perceived by the general public, shows us how official efforts to shape popular memory of the Cold War have failed. His journey across America to visit exhibits, monuments, and other historical sites, demonstrates how quickly the Cold War has faded from popular consciousness. A fascinating and entertaining book.” —Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 "In How We Forgot the Cold War, Jon Wiener shows how conservatives tried—and failed—to commemorate the Cold War as a noble victory over the global forces of tyranny, a 'good war' akin to World War II. Displaying splendid skills as a reporter in addition to his discerning eye as a scholar, this historian's travelogue convincingly shows how the right sought to extend its preferred policy of 'rollback' to the arena of public memory. In a country where historical memory has become an obsession, Wiener’s ability to document the ambiguities and absences in these commemorations is an unusual accomplishment.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America “In this terrific piece of scholarly journalism, Jon Wiener imaginatively combines scholarship on the Cold War, contemporary journalism, and his own observations of various sites commemorating the era to describe both what they contain and, just as importantly, what they do not. By interrogating the standard conservative brand of American triumphalism, Wiener offers an interpretation of the Cold War that emphasizes just how unnecessary the conflict was and how deleterious its aftereffects have really been.”—Ellen Schrecker, author of Many Are The Crimes: McCarthyism in America

Book The Alger Hiss Case

Download or read book The Alger Hiss Case written by and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alger Hiss s Looking glass Wars

Download or read book Alger Hiss s Looking glass Wars written by G. Edward White and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, if Alger Hiss was guilty of espionage, did he invite close scrutiny of his life and career by devoting so much of his time to proving his innocence? And how, without producing any new evidence, was he able to convince many he was not a spy? This book examines his life in the light of the evidence of his complicity.

Book Cold Friday

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  • Author : Whittaker Chambers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Cold Friday written by Whittaker Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Reclass correction jmm 20090803.

Book The Case of Alger Hiss

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  • Author : Jim Woollett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book The Case of Alger Hiss written by Jim Woollett and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hiss Case  A Study and Analysis of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers  The Events  Testimony  and Controversy of One of The Twntieth Century s Strangest Cases

Download or read book The Hiss Case A Study and Analysis of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers The Events Testimony and Controversy of One of The Twntieth Century s Strangest Cases written by William Rothe and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Daughters of Yalta

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  • Author : Catherine Grace Katz
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0358117852
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book The Daughters of Yalta written by Catherine Grace Katz and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"--