Secret agents : the Rosenberg case, McCarthyism, and fifties America / edited by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. - New York : Routledge, 1995. - 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Culture work .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Secret agents / Jell-O / The Rosenbergs and the crimes of a century / TV, the bomb, and the body : Other cold war secrets / The secret about secrets / Censorship of American uranium mine epidemiology in the 1950s / The trial of J. Edgar Hoover / Strange angel : The pinklisting of Roy Cohn / Flash back, flash forward : The fifties, the nineties, and the transformed politics of remote control / Before the Rosenbergs : Espionage scenarios in the early cold war / Helplessness and heartlessness : Irving Howe, James Bond, and the Rosenbergs / The Rosenberg case and the New York intellectuals / The Rosenberg letters / The suffering body : Ethel Rosenberg in the hands of the writers / A bond of sisterhood : Ethel Rosenberg, Molly Goldberg, and radical Jewish women of the 1950s / The bell jar and the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg / Rosenberg realities / Some remarks about trials / Jews and McCarthyism : A view from the Bronx / Contrasting fates of repression : A comment on Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee / Arbitrary convictions? The Rosenberg case, the death penalty, and democratic culture / The work of the state / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Marjorie Garber -- Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Joyce Nelson -- Stanley Goldberg -- Robert N. Proctor -- Thomas L. Dumm -- Michael Cadden -- Alice Jardine -- Ellen Schrecker -- Bruce Robbins -- David Suchoff -- David Thorburn -- Carol Hurd Green -- Joyce Antler -- Marie Ashe -- Robert Meeropol -- David Kennedy -- Morton J. Horwitz -- Randall Kennedy -- Karl E. Klare -- Andrew Ross Introduction : Part I. Secrets -- Part II. Agents -- Part III. Testimonies --

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Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953.
Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953.
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.


Communists--Biography.--United States
Spies--Biography.--United States
Trials (Espionage)--United States.
Cold War.


United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.

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