Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America

by John Edwin Bakeless

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415911206
• ISBN13: 9780415911207
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary