Alger Hiss's looking-glass wars : the covert life of a Soviet spy / / G. Edward White
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| Autore: |
White G. Edward
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| Titolo: |
Alger Hiss's looking-glass wars : the covert life of a Soviet spy / / G. Edward White
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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