Alger Hiss and the battle for history /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Icons of America.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Passions as prologue
- The eye of the hurricane, 1948-1950
- Competing narratives and public amnesia, 1950-1965
- The best of times, the worst of times, 1970-1980
- The rise of the right and the Cold War at twilight, 1980-1992
- The enemy vanishes, 1992-2008
- Passions as epilogue.