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By Lori Clune

In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have been arrested for allegedly passing information regarding the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover categorised the "crime of the century." Their case turned a world sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of help, newspaper editorials, and protests in nations world wide. however, the Rosenbergs have been carried out after years of appeals, making them the single civilians ever placed to dying for conspiracy-related actions. but even after their executions, protests persisted. The Rosenberg case speedy reworked into legend, whereas the media highlight shifted to their orphaned sons.

In Executing the Rosenbergs, Lori Clune demonstrates that the Rosenberg case performed a pivotal function within the world's belief of the U.S.. in line with newly came upon records from the country division, Clune narrates the common dissent opposed to the Rosenberg choice in eighty towns and forty eight nations. at the same time the Truman and Eisenhower administrations tried to show the case into pro-democracy propaganda, U.S. allies and capability allies puzzled even if the U.S. had the ethical authority to win the chilly conflict. in the meantime, the loss of life of Stalin in 1953 additionally raised the stakes of the executions; with out a transparent hero and villain, the fight among democracy and communism shifted into morally ambiguous terrain.

Transcending questions of guilt or innocence, Clune weaves the case -and its aftermath -into the material of the chilly struggle, revealing its far-reaching worldwide results. An unique method of the most attention-grabbing episodes in chilly conflict historical past, Executing the Rosenbergs broadens a quintessentially American tale right into a international one.

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