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?
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