Allen Weinstein, Perjury The Hiss-Chambers Case

Outline:

• Objectives:
  • to examine what we can know about recent events for which there is an abundance of evidence
  • to reconstruct both the story of what happened, how it happened, and what the consequences seem to have been
  • who are the principal players?

• a glimpse of Weinstein's critics: Jon Wiener, "The Alger Hiss Case, the Archives, and Allen Weinstein", PERSPECTIVES, American Historical Association Newsletter, February 1992, pp. 10-12.
  • Ella Winter

  • Maxim Lieber

  • Paul Willert

  • Sam Krieger

  • Karel Kaplan

  • Alden Whitman

  • Victor Navasky of the Nation

  For the text of Weinstein's book (restricted to local use on disks provided without charge) click on the chapters & associated notes below.

  • Chapter 1 & footnotes

  • Chapter 2 & footnotes
  • Chapter 3 & footnotes
  • Chapter 4 & footnotes
  • Chapter 5 & footnotes
  • Chapter 6 & footnotes
  • Chapter 7 & footnotes

  • Chapter 8 & footnotes
  • Chapter 9 & footnotes
  • Chapter 10 & footnotes
  • Chapter 11 & footnotes
  • Chapter 12 & footnotes
  • Chapter 13 & footnotes

  • Chapter 14 & footnotes
  • Chapter 15 & footnotes
  • Chapter 16 & footnotes
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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  Course format, syllabus, and lectures ŠEd Papenfuse
  Maryland State Archives

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