Secret agents : the Rosenberg case, McCarthyism, and fifties America

Secret agents : the Rosenberg case, McCarthyism, and fifties America / edited by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Garber, Marjorie B., Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1995.
Series:Culture work
Subjects:
Rosenberg, Ethel, > 1915-1953.
Rosenberg, Julius, > 1918-1953.
McCarthy, Joseph, > 1908-1957.
Communists > United States > Biography.
Spies > United States > Biography.
Trials (Espionage) > United States.
Cold War.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Secret agents / Rebecca L. Walkowitz
  • Part I. Secrets
  • Jell-O / Marjorie Garber
  • The Rosenbergs and the crimes of a century / Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • TV, the bomb, and the body : Other cold war secrets / Joyce Nelson
  • The secret about secrets / Stanley Goldberg
  • Censorship of American uranium mine epidemiology in the 1950s / Robert N. Proctor
  • The trial of J. Edgar Hoover / Thomas L. Dumm
  • Strange angel : The pinklisting of Roy Cohn / Michael Cadden
  • Flash back, flash forward : The fifties, the nineties, and the transformed politics of remote control / Alice Jardine
  • Part II. Agents
  • Before the Rosenbergs : Espionage scenarios in the early cold war / Ellen Schrecker
  • Helplessness and heartlessness : Irving Howe, James Bond, and the Rosenbergs / Bruce Robbins
  • The Rosenberg case and the New York intellectuals / David Suchoff
  • The Rosenberg letters / David Thorburn
  • The suffering body : Ethel Rosenberg in the hands of the writers / Carol Hurd Green
  • A bond of sisterhood : Ethel Rosenberg, Molly Goldberg, and radical Jewish women of the 1950s / Joyce Antler
  • The bell jar and the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg / Marie Ashe
  • Part III. Testimonies
  • Rosenberg realities / Robert Meeropol
  • Some remarks about trials / David Kennedy
  • Jews and McCarthyism : A view from the Bronx / Morton J. Horwitz
  • Contrasting fates of repression : A comment on Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee / Randall Kennedy
  • Arbitrary convictions? The Rosenberg case, the death penalty, and democratic culture / Karl E. Klare
  • The work of the state / Andrew Ross

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