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
Summary
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
