Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case

by R. Bruce Craig

Book Overview

Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley shocked America in 1948 with their allegations that Communist spies had penetrated the American government. The resulting perjury trial of Alger Hiss is already legendary, but Chambers and Bentley also named Harry Dexter White, a high-ranking Treasury official. (Hiss himself thought that White had been the real target of the House Un-American Activities Committee.) When White died only a week after his bold...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613110
• ISBN13: 9780700613113
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"