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:

• View as much as possible of John Lowenthal's film The Trials of Alger Hiss

• 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?

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