Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine in fine, price clipped dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 309 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. In June, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were led separately from their prison cells on death row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union and providing secrets about American nuclear weapons, radar, sonar. and jet engines. The case against Julius was incontrovertible but even at the time some in the government felt the case against Ethel was flimsy and that her brother perjured himself in testifying against her. This book, some 70 years after the trial and executions, is the first to tell Ethel's story with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer, and her psychotherapist over a three year period. Fine / fine. Item #E32970
ISBN: 9781250198631
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