The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage

by Rosalee McReynolds, Louise S. Robbins, Louise Robbins

Book Overview

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian Mary Jane Keeney and her husband Philip, who had been called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to account for friendships with suspected communists, memberships in communist fronts, and authorship of articles that had been published in leftist periodicals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275994481
• ISBN13: 9780275994488
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"