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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.131 EAN: 9780521674072 ISBN: 0521674077 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: August 28, 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Studio: Cambridge University Press Sales Rank: 325251 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials that revealed that American Communists had co-operated with Soviet espionage against the United States and had assisted in stealing the technical secrets of the atomic bomb as well as penetrating the U.S. State Department, the Treasury Department, and the White House itself. This book reviews the major spy cases of the early Cold War (Hiss-Chambers, Rosenberg, Bentley, Gouzenko, Coplon, Amerasia and others) and the often-frustrating clashes between the exacting rules of the American criminal justice system and the requirements of effective counter-espionage. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge Essential Histories)I bought this book for my father, and he loved it. It took him less than a week to finish. If you or a relative are a history buff, I strongly suggest buying this book. Also, they shipped it ASAP, which was wonderful! Rating: - Finally, the truth about Soviet espionage in AmericaRead this for graduate American history course. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have collaborated and written the definitive book on six of America's espionage trials of the early Cold War era. The historical authority that this book enjoys is due not only to the use of trial transcripts and to primary and secondary sources, but its real authority comes from three sources that have been unavailable to scholars in some instances for over forty years. To draw an accurate picture of the magnitude ... Read More Rating: - Yes, Virginia, there really were hundreds of Communist spiesThis reference work belongs on your bookshelf. Short and factual while heavily documented, in effect a college-level history primer, it recounts and places in context the major espionage trials of the 1940s and 1950s. It is now estimated there were several hundred Soviet spies in the United States, pilfering government, industrial or military secrets, and occasionally rising high enough in government to influence policy. Few were successfully prosecuted because counterespionage ... Read More Rating: - History of the Trials, and Subsequent RevelationsDuring World War II and in the years afterward Stalin and the Soviet Union maintained a very active spy network in both the United States and England. During this time the intellectual liberals in the United States became convinced that the United States Government was on a witch hunt to railroad a series of people into jail. Perhaps the most famous of these was the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were convicted of espionage and subsequently executed. There have been a number of books ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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