Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars : The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy.
Title:
Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars : The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy.
Author:
White, G.Edward.
ISBN:
9781602568174
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (538 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- One Family and Marriage -- Two Exposure -- Three Prison -- Four The Campaign for Vindication -- Five The Campaign Gains Momentum -- Six The Intervention of Allen Weinstein -- Seven The Russian Connection -- Eight Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Draws together the details of Alger Hiss, an innocent victim of McCarthyism 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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