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Control # 1 2020057526
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20240109164815.0
Fixed Data 8 210121s2021 nyuaf b 001 0beng
LC Card 10    $a 2020057526
ISBN 20    $a9781250198631$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $z9781250198655$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a336100$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aHX84.R578$bS426 2021
Dewey Class 82 00 $a320.53/2092$aB$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aSebba, Anne,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aEthel Rosenberg :$ban American tragedy /$cAnne Sebba.
Edition 250    $aFirst U.S. edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2021.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:General 500    $aOriginally published in Great Britain by Weidenfield & Nicolson.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aBecoming Ethel -- Wartime Mothering -- Struggling -- Unraveling -- Prison -- On Trial -- Destruction -- Isolation -- Facing Death -- Redemption -- Epilogue: The Many Ways of Imagining and Seeing Ethel.
Abstract 520    $a"New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950's. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother to her two small boys, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn't committed, orphaning her two young sons. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel's story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens."--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aRosenberg, Ethel,$d1915-1953.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCommunists$zUnited States$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSpies$zUnited States$vBiography.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aBiographies.$2lcgft