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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

byAnne Sebba

Anne Sebba uses Ethel Rosenberg to investigate an American Tragedy through a carefully framed biographical portrait. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of biography & autobiography and political science. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. Ethel Rosenberg leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Publication date

Jun 08, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9781250198631