LEADER 04122nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910458285003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-50143-7 010 $a9786612501432 010 $a0-300-15584-0 010 $a1-4416-4560-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300155846 035 $a(CKB)2560000000012837 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050081 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11309731 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10355076 035 $a(PQKB)10814754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420982 035 $a(DE-B1597)484999 035 $a(OCoLC)613205910 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300155846 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579381 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250143 035 $a(OCoLC)923600328 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000012837 100 $a20080815d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlger Hiss and the battle for history$b[electronic resource] /$fSusan Jacoby 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aIcons of America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12133-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tOne. Passions as Prologue -- $tTwo. The Eye of the Hurricane, 1948-1950 -- $tTree. Competing Narratives and Public Amnesia, 1950-1965 -- $tFour. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, 1970-1980 -- $tFive. The Rise of the Right and the Cold War at Twilight, 1980-1992 -- $tSix. The Enemy Vanishes, 1992-2008 -- $tConclusion. Passions as Epilogue -- $tChronology -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aBooks on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948-that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post-Cold War era. With a brisk, engaging style, Jacoby positions the case in the politics of the post-World War II era and then explores the ways in which generations of liberals and conservatives have put Chambers and Hiss to their own ideological uses. An iconic event of the McCarthy era, the case of Alger Hiss fascinates political intellectuals not only because of its historical significance but because of its timeless relevance to equally fierce debates today about the difficult balance between national security and respect for civil liberties. 410 0$aIcons of America. 606 $aCommunism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEspionage, Soviet$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 606 $aRight and left (Political science) 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory 615 0$aEspionage, Soviet$xHistory 615 0$aCold War. 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) 676 $a364.1/31 700 $aJacoby$b Susan$f1945-$01037438 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458285003321 996 $aAlger Hiss and the battle for history$92458422 997 $aUNINA