Executing the Rosenbergs : death and diplomacy in a Cold War world / Lori Clune.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190265915 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc | Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Trials, litigation, etc | Trials (Espionage) -- New York (State) -- New York | Trials (Conspiracy) -- New York (State) -- New York | United States -- History -- 1945-1953Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190265885DDC classification: 345.730231 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: In the summer of 1950, FBI agents arrested Julius Rosenberg and charged him with conspiracy to commit espionage. Specifically the Justice Department accused him of passing, through his brother-in-law, the 'secret of the atomic bomb' to the Soviet Union. A few weeks later they charged Julius's wife Ethel with the same crime to pressure them to name spies. Convicted and sentenced to death at the height of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria, the couple was plunged into a whirlwind of appeals, protests, and propaganda until their executions in June 1953. Their deaths did little to silence protest, however; as martyrs their case became legend and cast a spotlight on their two orphaned sons. More than half a century later the trial and executions remain living and breathing controversies.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Previously issued in print: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the summer of 1950, FBI agents arrested Julius Rosenberg and charged him with conspiracy to commit espionage. Specifically the Justice Department accused him of passing, through his brother-in-law, the 'secret of the atomic bomb' to the Soviet Union. A few weeks later they charged Julius's wife Ethel with the same crime to pressure them to name spies. Convicted and sentenced to death at the height of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria, the couple was plunged into a whirlwind of appeals, protests, and propaganda until their executions in June 1953. Their deaths did little to silence protest, however; as martyrs their case became legend and cast a spotlight on their two orphaned sons. More than half a century later the trial and executions remain living and breathing controversies.
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