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Ethel Rosenberg - A Cold War Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Ethel Rosenberg - A Cold War Tragedy (Hardcover)
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"Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP
"Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A
heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life
put her in the cross-hairs of history" HADLEY FREEMAN "I don't
think I've ever read a book that has moved me more" ANTHONY
HOROWITZ "A brilliant and fresh take on a famous case" SIMON SEBAG
MONTEFIORE Ethel Rosenberg's story has been called America's
Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that
continues to haunt the national conscience, and is still being
played out with different actors in the lead roles today. On 19th
June 1953 Ethel Rosenberg became the first woman in the US to be
executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years
old and the mother of two small children. Yet even today, at a time
when the Cold War seems all too resonant, Ethel's conviction for
conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union makes
her story still controversial. This is an important moment to
recount not simply what FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the
'trial of the century', but also a timeless human story of a
supportive wife, loving mother and courageous idealist who grew up
during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.
Instead, she found herself battling the social mores of the 1950s
and had her life barbarically cut short on the basis of tainted
evidence for a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Anne
Sebba's masterly biography makes full use of the dramatic prison
letters Ethel exchanged with her husband, lawyer and
psychotherapist over a three-year period. Sebba has also
interviewed Ethel's two sons and others who knew her, including a
fellow prisoner. Ethel's tragic story lays bare a nation deeply
divided and reveals what happens when a government motivated by
fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.
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