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Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars - The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy (Paperback)
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Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars - The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy (Paperback)
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For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an
innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded
by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss
grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of
innocence that outshone the facts in many minds.
Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of
Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class childhood in Baltimore and
his brilliant success at Harvard to his later career as a self-made
martyr to McCarthyism--to paint a fascinating portrait of a man
whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie. White catalogs the
evidence that proved Hiss's guilt, from Whittaker Chambers's famous
testimony, to copies of State Department documents typed on Hiss's
typewriter, to Allen Weinstein's groundbreaking investigation in
the 1970s. The author then explores the central conundrums of
Hiss's life: Why did this talented lawyer become a Communist and a
Soviet spy? Why did he devote so much of his life to an extensive
public campaign to deny his espionage? And how, without producing
any new evidence, did he convince many people that he was innocent?
White offers a compelling analysis of Hiss's behavior in the face
of growing evidence of his guilt, revealing how this behavior fit
into an ongoing pattern of denial and duplicity in his life.
The story of Alger Hiss is in part a reflection of Cold War
America--a time of ideological passions, partisan battles, and
secret lives. It is also a story that transcends a particular
historical era--a story about individuals who choose to engage in
espionage for foreign powers and the secret worlds they choose to
conceal. In White's skilledhands, the life of Alger Hiss comes to
illuminate both of those themes.
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