trials (espionage)

Provides accounts of seventeen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the stand-off between American Indian Movement activists and the FBI at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1971 and continuing through the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal of 2004, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.

Provides accounts of eighteen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and continuing through the Attica prison riots of 1971, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted.

The author revisits the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in 1953 after being convicted of passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia, drawing from new evidence to see if the conclusion he reached in 1965 that the Rosenberg's were innocent, still holds.

Chronicles the controversial trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the New York couple accused of conspiring to give military secrets to the Soviets at the end of World War II, and presents numerous primary source excerpts and photos.

A biography of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being found guilty of passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.

Reconstructs events leading up to the trial, analyzes the trial and includes new evidence on the case.

A reconstruction of the Alger Hiss trial, using testimony from edited transcripts of the trial, during which the reader can assume the role of juror.