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Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195348400
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many minds. Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of Hiss's life--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. White catalogs the evidence that proved Hiss's guilt, from Whittaker Chambers's famous testimony, to copies of State Department documents typed on Hiss's typewriter, to Allen Weinstein's groundbreaking investigation in the 1970s. The author then explores the central conundrums of Hiss's life: Why did this talented lawyer become a Communist and a Soviet spy? Why did he devote so much of his life to an extensive public campaign to deny his espionage? And how, without producing any new evidence, did he convince many people that he was innocent? White offers a compelling analysis of Hiss's behavior in the face of growing evidence of his guilt, revealing how this behavior fit into an ongoing pattern of denial and duplicity in his life. The story of Alger Hiss is in part a reflection of Cold War America--a time of ideological passions, partisan battles, and secret lives. It is also a story that transcends a particular historical era--a story about individuals who choose to engage in espionage for foreign powers and the secret worlds they choose to conceal. In White's skilled hands, the life of Alger Hiss comes to illuminate both of those themes.

Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195153453
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates the diverse details of Alger Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class upbringing and Harvard success to his role as a martyr to McCarthyism--to present intriguing evidence that Hiss, contrary to popular opinion, was indeed a Soviet spy, limning a remarkable portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie.

Alger Hiss' Looking-glass Wars

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199850310
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348408
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many minds. Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of Hiss's life--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. White catalogs the evidence that proved Hiss's guilt, from Whittaker Chambers's famous testimony, to copies of State Department documents typed on Hiss's typewriter, to Allen Weinstein's groundbreaking investigation in the 1970s. The author then explores the central conundrums of Hiss's life: Why did this talented lawyer become a Communist and a Soviet spy? Why did he devote so much of his life to an extensive public campaign to deny his espionage? And how, without producing any new evidence, did he convince many people that he was innocent? White offers a compelling analysis of Hiss's behavior in the face of growing evidence of his guilt, revealing how this behavior fit into an ongoing pattern of denial and duplicity in his life. The story of Alger Hiss is in part a reflection of Cold War America--a time of ideological passions, partisan battles, and secret lives. It is also a story that transcends a particular historical era--a story about individuals who choose to engage in espionage for foreign powers and the secret worlds they choose to conceal. In White's skilled hands, the life of Alger Hiss comes to illuminate both of those themes.

Alger Hiss

Author : Christina Shelton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451655436
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Alger Hiss written by Christina Shelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the lesser-known story of a high-level State Department official who in the late 1940s was charged with spying for the Soviet Union, arguing that the case was shaped by missed opportunities and poor judgments that also reflected period Soviet infiltration and American counter-intelligence analytic failures.

Alger Hiss

Author : Christina Shelton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451655428
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Alger Hiss written by Christina Shelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of infamous Soviet spy Alger Hiss by a former U.S. Intelligence analyst who confirms both Hiss' guilt and how deeply the Soviets had infiltrated the government.

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155840
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Alger Hiss and the Battle for History written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 work, the author turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions.

The Safety of the Kingdom

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631440330
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Safety of the Kingdom written by J. Michael Martinez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrendous events of September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of terrorism unlike all but a handful of major catastrophes in American history. Like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, 9/11 is a date forever enshrined in our national memory. But 9/11 once again raised the question: What should government do to eliminate or reduce the likelihood of a future attack? How should national leadership balance its responsibility to protect the civil liberties of U.S. citizens with its sworn duty to protect their lives? In The Safety of the Kingdom, J. Michael Martinez takes up the question of how the United States government has responded to terrorist attacks and, in the absence of an attack, the fear of foreign and subversive elements that may harm the nation. In some cases, the government “overreaction” led to a series of abuses that amplified the severity of the original threat. Rather than selecting every instance of government reaction to threats, Martinez examines representative cases, from the alien and sedition acts in the eighteenth century to the post-9/11 “war on terror.” Edward Snowden’s disclosure of classified information related to the NSA’s surveillance program brought to the fore an important debate about government scrutiny of its citizens. As J. Michael Martinez makes clear in this book, it is a debate that has been ongoing for centuries. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Constitution and the New Deal

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674008311
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Constitution and the New Deal written by G. Edward White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as "liberal," "conservative," and "reactionary," and by reexamining several key topics in constitutional law. Through a close reading of sources and analysis of the minds and sensibilities of a wide array of justices, including Holmes, Brandeis, Sutherland, Butler, Van Devanter, and McReynolds, White rediscovers the world of early-twentieth-century constitutional law and jurisprudence. He provides a counter-story to that of the triumphalist New Dealers. The deep conflicts over constitutional ideas that took place in the first half of the twentieth century are sensitively recovered, and the morality play of good liberals vs. mossbacks is replaced. This is the only thoroughly researched and fully realized history of the constitutional thought and practice of all the Supreme Court justices during the turbulent period that made America modern.

Stalin's American Spy

Author : Tony Sharp
Publisher : Hurst
ISBN 13 : 1849044961
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's American Spy written by Tony Sharp and published by Hurst. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the suspicion that Field was an American spy who had infiltrated the Communist movement at the behest of Allen Dulles, the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland who later headed the CIA. Never tried, Field and his wife were imprisoned in Budapest until 1954, then granted political asylum in Hungary, where they lived out their sterile last years. This new biography takes a fresh look at Field's relationship with Dulles, and his role in the Alger Hiss affair. It sheds fresh light upon Soviet espionage in the United States and Field's relationship with Hede Massing, Ignace Reiss and Walter Krivitsky. It also reassesses how the increasingly anti-Semitic East European show-trials were staged and dissects the 'lessons" which Stalin sought to convey through them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195116674
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the well-known philosopher and judge, with emphasis on his influential thirty-year tenure as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

CIA Spymaster

Author : Ashley, III, Clarence A.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455602230
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book CIA Spymaster written by Ashley, III, Clarence A. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB AND THE MILITARY BOOK CLUB "One of the best behind-the-scenes perspectives on Cold War espionage that I have read." -Francis Gary Powers, founder, The Cold War Museum "When I think of George Kisevalter, I think about one of the finest public servants I have ever known. I think about honor, decency, and integrity. He served in some very important and difficult posts, always with distinction, always making his country and the Agency proud." -George Herbert Walker Bush, president and former CIA director George Kisevalter ran the first key Soviet agent in CIA history, Pyotr Popov, gained the U.S. its first view behind the Iron Curtain, and helped gain information from Soviet colonel Oleg Penkovsky, regarded as the most successful spy in CIA history. This top-secret information proved decisive for Kennedy during the showdown of the Cuban missile crisis. More than a biography, CIA SpyMaster is a glimpse into the mind of an espionage genius, a rare view of what it takes to "live in the black" for years at a time under a fictitious identity, torn from friends and family. It's a behind-the-scenes look at spycraft in action, from dead drops and cutoffs to multilayered ciphers, the KGB's secret "spydust," and everything in between. It is a book of ever-increasing tension and suspense, as the rising stakes of the Cold War endow every act of espionage with utmost importance. During his lifetime, George Kisevalter was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the highest award attainable in the CIA without giving one's life. For his work with Penkovsky, he received a Certificate of Merit with Distinction. Less than two months before his death in 1997, he was selected as one of fifty "unique contributors" in the fifty-year history of the CIA and was presented with the newly established Trailblazers Award, the only case officer ever to be so honored.

Perjury

Author : Allen Weinstein
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perjury written by Allen Weinstein and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 3, 1948, "Time" magazine editor Whittaker Chambers made a stunning allegation before the House Un-American Activities Committee: Alger Hiss, former high-ranking State Department official, had served with him in the Communist underground. Hiss's defense was the gripping story of its day, and the question of his guilt remains an enigma. This book provides fascinating insights into the case and into the American political life of the 1930s and 1940s. of photos.

The American Judicial Tradition

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019028613X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The American Judicial Tradition written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter on the Rehnquist Court. White traces the development of the American judicial tradition through biographical sketches of the careers and contributions of these renowned judges. In this updated edition, he argues that the Rehnquist Court's approach to constitutional interpretation may have ushered in a new stage in the American judicial tradition. The update also includes a new preface and revised bibliographic note.

American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199766002
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise examination of the central role of legal decisions in shaping key social issues explores topics ranging from Native American affairs and slavery to business and home life as well as how criminal and civil offenses have been addressed in positive and negative ways. Original.

At the Abyss

Author : Thomas Reed
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307414620
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book At the Abyss written by Thomas Reed and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential, epic account of the past half century, the tense years when the world trembled At the Abyss. Written by an author who rose from military officer to administration insider, this is a vivid, unvarnished view of America’s fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command, a work as full of human interest as history, rich characters as bloody conflict. Among the unforgettable figures who devised weaponry, dictated policy, or deviously spied and subverted: Whittaker Chambers—the translator whose book, Witness, started the hunt for bigger game: Communists in our government; Lavrenti Beria—the head of the Soviet nuclear weapons program who apparently killed Joseph Stalin; Col. Ed Hall—the leader of America’s advanced missile system, whose own brother was a Soviet spy; Adm. James Stockwell—the prisoner of war and eventual vice presidential candidate who kept his terrible secret from the Vietnamese for eight long years; Nancy Reagan—the “Queen of Hearts,” who was both loving wife and instigator of palace intrigue in her husband’s White House. From Eisenhower’s decision to beat the Russians at their own game, to the “Missile Gap” of the Kennedy Era, to Reagan’s vow to “lean on the Soviets until they go broke”—all the pivotal events of the period are portrayed in new and stunning detail with information only someone on the front lines and in backrooms could know. Yet At the Abyss is more than a riveting and comprehensive recounting. It is a cautionary tale for our time, a revelation of how, “those years . . . came to be known as the Cold War, not World War III.”

Red Spies in America

Author : Katherine Amelia Siobhan Sibley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Red Spies in America written by Katherine Amelia Siobhan Sibley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most detailed study of Soviet military-industrial espionage during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s--spying aimed specifically at acquiring restricted information and materials relating to American industry, technology, and science.