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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more...
Author
Language
English
Description
1953. Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances. Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's; his parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless,...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the height of The Cold War, the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg shook America to its core. Because of the stranglehold Senator Joe McCarthy's red scare propaganda had on the nation, a true reflection of Julius and Ethel never surfaced during this volatile period. Fifty years later, granddaughter Ivy Meeropol goes on a quest to find the 'true' Rosenbergs and to answer the questions that have haunted her family to this day.
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Language
English
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On June 19, 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage -- the only Americans put to death for spying during the Cold War. The day Ethel was first arrested in 1950, she left her two young sons with a neighbor and never came home to them again. This spellbinding historical novel reimagines their story.
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