Research Catalog

Title

Perjury : the Hiss-Chambers case / Allen Weinstein.

Author

Weinstein, Allen

Publication

New York : Random House, c1997.

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Details

Description

xxv, 622 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

On August 3, 1948, Time magazine editor Whittaker Chambers made a stunning allegation before the House Un-American Activities Committee: Alger Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former high-ranking State Department official, had served with him in the Communist underground. Hiss's defense was the most gripping story of its day, and the question of his guilt has remained an American enigma. Now, historian Allen Weinstein finally solves, once and for all, one of the great American mysteries. Weinstein also, for the first time ever, draws upon previously inaccessible information from Soviet archives. The result is an extraordinary book that leaves anyone who reads it with one inescapable conclusion: Alger Hiss was guilty.

Subjects

• History
• Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States
• Subversive activities > United States > History
• Communism > United States
• Chambers, Whittaker
• Hiss, Alger

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-600) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Origins: HUAC : a month of headlines ; Alger and Whittaker : the crucible of family ; The un-secret agent ; The Ware Group and the New Deal -- pt. 2. Espionage: Perjury : a question of documents ; The dual life ; Spies and bureaucrats : the stolen documents -- Cobcealment : Perjury : a question of candor ; The defection of "Karl" ; Alger and Whittaker :the forging of careers -- pt. 4. Disclosure: Rumors and whsipers : the pursuit of evidence ; Deadlock : the first trial ; Conviction : the second trial -- pt. 5. Conspiracies: 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.

ISBN

067977338X

LCCN

^^^98141978^

OCLC

• 37286357
• SCSB-10449905

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library