Shelton, Christina. <br/><br/>
Alger Hiss :  why he chose treason / 
Christina Shelton ; an introduction by Richard Pipes. 
 - 1st Threshold editions hardcover ed. 
 - New York :  Threshold Editions,  2012. 
 - xvii, 330 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The early years -- Growing up in Baltimore -- Hopkins and Harvard Law -- Priscilla Hiss -- Supreme Court clerk and attorney-at-law -- A committed communist. -- The new dealer -- The Ware Group -- Whittaker Chambers -- The State Department bureaucrat -- Yalta -- Fascism and communism -- Accused and convicted. -- The case -- Lewisburg Prison -- Attempt at vindication 1954-1996 -- The evidence. -- Testimonies -- Venona program -- Archival material: -- A. Hungarian archives -- B. KGB archives. 
<br/><br/> Documents the lesser-known story of a high-level State Department official who in the late 1940s was charged with spying for the Soviet Union, arguing that the case was shaped by missed opportunities and poor judgments that also reflected period Soviet infiltration and American counter-intelligence analytic failures. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781451655421 1451655428 9781451655438 1451655436 9781451655452 1451655452 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40020807780 40020816346 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011038985 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hiss, Alger.<br/>Hiss, Alger--Trials, litigation, etc.<br/>Hiss, Alger.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Department of State --Officials and employees--Biography.<br/>United States. Congress.  House.  Committee on Un-American Activities. <br/>United States. Congress.  House.  Committee on Un-American Activities. <br/>United States. Department of State. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spies--United States--Biography.<br/>Communism--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Espionage, Soviet--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Communism--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Communism.<br/>Employees.<br/>Espionage, Soviet.<br/>Spies.<br/>Trials.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Trial and arbitral proceedings.<br/>Biographies.<br/>History.<br/>Biographies.<br/>Trial and arbitral proceedings.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E743.5.H55  / S54 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.12092  B