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



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Autore: White G. Edward Visualizza persona
Titolo: Alger Hiss's looking-glass wars : the covert life of a Soviet spy / / G. Edward White Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2004
©2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
Disciplina: 364.1/31
Soggetto topico: Spies - United States
Communists - United States
Subversive activities - United States - History - 20th century
Espionage, Soviet - United States - History
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Alger Hiss's looking-glass wars  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771112-X
1-280-50203-7
0-19-534840-0
0-19-518481-5
1-60256-817-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784668203321
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