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Secret agents : the Rosenberg case, McCarthyism, and fifties America
Title
Secret agents : the Rosenberg case, McCarthyism, and fifties America / edited by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.
ISBN
0203700139
1135206899
1135206937
1135206945
9780203700136
9781135206895
9781135206932
9781135206949
0415911192
0415911206
9780415911191
9780415911207
Publication
New York : Routledge, 1995.
Physical Description
1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
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 Agents presents essays by lawyers, cultural critics, social historians and histo.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Print version: Secret agents
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Culture work
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Secret agents / Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Part I. Secrets
Jell-O / Marjorie Garber
The Rosenbergs and the crimes of a century / Blanche Wiesen Cook
TV, the bomb, and the body : Other cold war secrets / Joyce Nelson
The secret about secrets / Stanley Goldberg
Censorship of American uranium mine epidemiology in the 1950s / Robert N. Proctor
The trial of J. Edgar Hoover / Thomas L. Dumm
Strange angel : The pinklisting of Roy Cohn / Michael Cadden
Flash back, flash forward : The fifties, the nineties, and the transformed politics of remote control / Alice Jardine
Part II. Agents
Before the Rosenbergs : Espionage scenarios in the early cold war / Ellen Schrecker
Helplessness and heartlessness : Irving Howe, James Bond, and the Rosenbergs / Bruce Robbins
The Rosenberg case and the New York intellectuals / David Suchoff
The Rosenberg letters / David Thorburn
The suffering body : Ethel Rosenberg in the hands of the writers / Carol Hurd Green
A bond of sisterhood : Ethel Rosenberg, Molly Goldberg, and radical Jewish women of the 1950s / Joyce Antler
The bell jar and the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg / Marie Ashe
Part III. Testimonies
Rosenberg realities / Robert Meeropol
Some remarks about trials / David Kennedy
Jews and McCarthyism : A view from the Bronx / Morton J. Horwitz
Contrasting fates of repression : A comment on Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee / Randall Kennedy
Arbitrary convictions? The Rosenberg case, the death penalty, and democratic culture / Karl E. Klare
The work of the state / Andrew Ross.
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