A generation on trial: U.S.A. v. Alger Hiss
"Four years had gone by since the names of Hiss and Chambers shook the nation. Now there was another Presidential campaign, and the Democrats were in full fling at their convention in Chicago. Judge Goddard’s word, perhaps the last, about Hiss was lucky to earn a few lines at the bottom of the inside pages of the newspapers. In most it earned none. Hiss had passed into shame and into history." With that spectacularly wrong evaluation, Alistair Cooke ended his account of the Alger Hiss perjury case. Sixty years later, the case is still being argued about
Print Book, English, 1950
[1st ed.]
Knopf, New York, 1950