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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History( )
Author: Jacoby, Susan
Series title:Icons of America Ser.
ISBN:978-0-300-12133-9
Publication Date:Apr 2009
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $49.99
Book Description:

Books 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...
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Author Biography
Jacoby, Susan (Author)
Susan Jacoby began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post. Her first book, Moscow Conversations, was based on the articles she contributed to the Post from Moscow between 1969 and 1971. Her other books include Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, The Possible She, Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, The Age of American Unreason, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion.

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