Secret Agents (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard) - Softcover

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9780415911207: Secret Agents (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard)
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ISBN 10: 0415911206 ISBN 13: 9780415911207
Publisher: Routledge, 1995

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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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415911206
ISBN 13 
9780415911207
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Editor
Marjorie Garber, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Rating
  • 3.56 out of 5 stars
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9780415911191: Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard)

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