Book Description
A shorter version ... appeared in the Nation under the title, Hiss: new perspectives on the strangest case of our time.
Author : Fred J. Cook
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Communism
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A shorter version ... appeared in the Nation under the title, Hiss: new perspectives on the strangest case of our time.
Author : Fred J. Cook
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1958
Category :
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Author : Fred J. Cook
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Lewis Hartshorn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1476602816
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.
Author : Doreen Rappaport
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1623341906
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.
Author : Allen Weinstein
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
Author : John Chabot Smith
Publisher :
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : G. Edward White
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195182553
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.
Author : Kati Marton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476763763
'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.
Author : John Chabot Smith
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :