Final Verdict : What Really Happend in the Rosenberg Case - Hardcover

Walter Schneir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935554166 ISBN 13: 9781935554165

Publisher: MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING, 2010

Synopsis

The arrest, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951 mesmerised an America coming to grips with the early Cold War and the anxiety aroused by the Soviet Union's testing of the atomic bomb. However, in 1965, Walter Schneir famously presented evidence that the Rosenbergs were innocent and had been framed by the FBI - a case which was brought into question in 1995 when the FBI released 3000 Soviet intelligence documents. This prompted Schneir to continue his research, which has lead to surprising and revelatory results.

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Review:

"Walter Schneir's willingness to acknowledge his own mistakes in the interest of historical truth makes all the more powerful his posthumous argument that new evidence throws light on precisely what Julius and Ethel Rosenberg did and didn't do. And Miriam Schneir's preface and afterword make clear why anyone who cares about our democracy should care about the truth of what happened here."
--Victor Navasky, author of Naming Names and A Matter of Opinion

Praise for Invitation to an Inquest

"A major event in the history of the celebrated case."
--The New York Times

"Some of the best detective work in modern journalism."
--The Nation

"Shows that the atom bomb secrets which [the Rosenbergs] were accused of giving the Russians were naïve caricatures of scientific diagrams with little or no value. . . the execution of the Rosenbergs seems more meaningless than ever."
--Arthur Miller

About the Author:

Walter Schneir was a freelance writer on law, politics, and science. He is the co-author, with his wife Miriam Schneir, of Invitation to an Inquest, long considered the definitive book on the Rosenberg case. He is also the editor of Telling It Like It Was: The Chicago Riots and editor of the collection Westmoreland v. CBS. His work appeared in many publications, including The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Ramparts, The Progressive, and the Times op-ed page. He died in April 2009.

Miriam Schneir is editor of Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present and Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. In addition to Invitation to an Inquest, she is also the co-author of "Remember the Ladies" Women in America, 1750-1815.

About this edition

• Publisher: MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1935554166
• ISBN 13: 9781935554165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256