false 6062373 1 <DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948—that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post–Cold War era. With a brisk, engaging style, Jacoby positions the case in the politics of the post–World War II era and then explores the ways in which generations of liberals and conservatives have put Chambers and Hiss to their own ideological uses. An iconic event of the McCarthy era, the case of Alger Hiss fascinates political intellectuals not only because of its historical significance but because of its timeless relevance to equally fierce debates today about the difficult balance between national security and respect for civil liberties.</P></DIV> 6238624 24 3 2009 Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Icons of America) total:10|5:1|4:1|3:5|2:2|1:1| 10 29 20 6 3 0 false false Wed Jun 17 05:54:05 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 05:57:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 16:05:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 16:13:39 -0700 2009
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Unwinds an interesting episode in post war, HUAC, Communism/Socialism in US history

Their still setting up the same bogey men[health care debate:] to knock down...

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