Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America

by Marjorie Garber

2021-01-01 14:44:43

When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted the "mock Rosenbergs," finding that in today''s courts they would not have been convicted of espion... Read more
When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted the "mock Rosenbergs," finding that in today''s courts they would not have been convicted of espionage.
The 1950s trial of the Rosenbergs on charges of "Atomic Spying" and "stealing the secrets of the Atomic bomb" was a major event of Cold War America, galvanizing public opinion on all sides of the question.Secret Agentspresents essays by lawyers, cultural critics, social historians and historians of science, as well as a reconsideration of the Rosenbergs by their younger son, Robert Meeropol.Secret Agentsgives new resonance to a history we have for too long been willing to forget.
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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.8 in
Print pages320
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date September 8, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415911207
Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including Shakespea...

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