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Allen Weinstein served as Archivist of the United States from 2005 to 2009. Weinstein received the United Nations Peace Medal in 1986, the Council of Europe's Silver Medal twice, in 1990 and 1996, and the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his original edition of mostrar más Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. His previous books include The story of American, Freedom and Crisis: An American History, Prelude to Populism, and The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-the Stalin Era. mostrar menos
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An in-depth look at the case involving accusations (directly) of perjury against State Department official Alger Hiss, and (indirectly) further accusations that he passed material to Soviet intelligence at various points in the 1930s. The author does a very good job of analyzing both Hiss' background, and that of Whitaker Chambers, the Time editor who made the accusations in spectacular fashion in 1948. The author flat out states, at the very end, that he believes Hiss committed perjury, and he did a very good job of laying out the case that Hiss was playing a very shifty game in his testimony. The author doesn't shy away from the fact that Chambers wasn't a perfect witness, either, and had major faults, but the evidence laid out, in my view, is compelling. Definitely recommended, especially as a counter to many apologia for Hiss that emerged in the Watergate era.… (más)
 
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EricCostello | 3 reseñas más. | Dec 18, 2019 |
I read it a long time ago. It was a great book.
 
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SigmundFraud | 3 reseñas más. | Dec 8, 2013 |
As with all DK books, this book is very informative and discriptive. I enjoy the way the writers present the history of America in such a straight-forward and discriptive way. Filled with thousands of illustration, DK makes it fun and interesting to learn your history. I simply didn't know where to begin to read this book, for my interest was so impatient to turn the pages and learn and be fascinated by so many informative facts.
 
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TheGoldenPen | Jan 31, 2010 |
Although Nasvasky raised some real questions Weinstein accurately reported testimony from certain veteran Communists, overall, I have no doubt
ththat Weinstein's basic conclusion --that Hiss was guilty -- is correct.
This is less from reading this book than from reading In Re Alger
Hiss, compiled by Hiss's supporters from documents obtained from the
FBI, which demonstrate (to me at least) that the FBI knew nothing
about the famous typewriter until Hiss's defense produced it, and in
fact the FBI was deeply suspicious of it when it was produced.
There are other details (some of which I no lonfer recall) which were
very much against Hiss. I told him so once in person and Hiss had no
real reply. My feeling is that Hiss's real defense (which he never
made) was that sharing information with a potential ally (which
ttthe USSR was at the time) is by no means as bad as sharing data
with a potential enemy (as the USSR was by the time Hiss was on trial.(
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antiquary | 3 reseñas más. | Jul 14, 2008 |

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