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Author Jacoby, Susan, 1945-

Title Alger Hiss and the battle for history / Susan Jacoby
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages)
Series [Icons of America]
Icons of America.
Contents Passions as prologue -- The eye of the hurricane, 1948-1950 -- Competing narratives and public amnesia, 1950-1965 -- The best of times, the worst of times, 1970-1980 -- The rise of the right and the Cold War at twilight, 1980-1992 -- The enemy vanishes, 1992-2008 -- Passions as epilogue
Summary Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948, that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this work, the author turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Hiss, Alger
SUBJECT Hiss, Alger fast
Hiss, Alger. swd
Subject United States. Department of State -- Officials and employees -- Biography
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
SUBJECT United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities fast
United States. Department of State fast
Subject Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Cold War.
Political culture -- United States
Right and left (Political science)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
Communism
Employees
Espionage, Soviet
Political culture
Politics and government
Right and left (Political science)
Kommunismus
Spionage
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
Subject United States
USA
Sowjetunion
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008036177
ISBN 9781441645609
1441645608
9780300155846
0300155840
9780300121339
0300121334
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9781282501430
9786612501432
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