Perjury : the Hiss-Chambers case /
When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University,
2013.
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Edición: | 3rd ed. |
Colección: | Hoover Institution Press publication ;
567. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- HUAC: a month of headlines
- Alger and Whittaker : the crucible of family
- The un-secret agent
- The Ware Group and the New Deal
- Perjury : a question of documents
- The dual life
- Spies and bureaucrats : the stolen documents
- Perjury : a question of candor
- The defection of "Karl"
- Alger and Whittaker : the forging of careers
- Rumors and whispers : the pursuit of evidence
- Deadlock : the first trial
- Conviction : the second trial
- Cold war iconography I : Alger Hiss as myth and symbol
- Alger and Whittaker : the vigil and the death watch
- Cold War iconography II : from Watergate to Red Square
- The Hiss labyrinth : six profiles.