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Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard)

Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard)

by Marjorie Garber (Editor), RebeccaWalkowitz (Editor)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

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 historians of science, as well as a reconsideration of the Rosenbergs by their younger son, Robert Meeropol. Secret Agents gives new resonance to a history we have for too long been willing to forget.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 0415911206
ISBN 13: 9780415911207

Media Reviews
Secret Agents succeeds in conveying a sense of moral engagement with its subject matter. This book also reanimates issues that conveniently dropped out of sight because, as a society, we are uncomfortable dealing with ambiguity in the historical record...Walkowitz and Garber should be both congratulated and widley read, for assembling a collection that leaves readers less comfortable for having spent time with this book.
- Boston Book Review, Dec.1995
a remarkably cogent account.
- Boston Book Review
the writers demonstrate with ferocious eloquence.
- Boston Book Review
The authors have assembled an extraordinary panoply of personal testimony, political polemic, social commentary, legal observation and scientific history. Secret Agents is, moreover, an intellectual kaleidoscope of the conduct of public affairs during the '50s.
- The Boston Book Review
Author Bio
Marjorie Garber is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University; she and Rebecca Walkowitz are also co-editors of Media Spectacles (Routledge 1993).