The Strange Case of Alger Hiss

©American Heritage, from an article by Fawn M. Brodie, "I Think Hiss is Lying" The Launching of Richard Nixon, August/September 1981, Vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 4-22.

Outline:

• discuss parts 1 & 2, pp. 1-266, of Weinstein's Perjury

 

 
 
 

• 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?