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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784668203321

Autore

White G. Edward

Titolo

Alger Hiss's looking-glass wars : the covert life of a Soviet spy / / G. Edward White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-19-771112-X

1-280-50203-7

0-19-534840-0

0-19-518481-5

1-60256-817-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/31

Soggetti

Spies - United States

Communists - United States

Subversive activities - United States - History - 20th century

Espionage, Soviet - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.