The Amerasia Spy Case (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Harvey Klehr, Ronald Radosh
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1950’s
- Setting: Primarily the United States
- Principal Characters: Philip Jaffe, Kate Mitchell, Andrew Roth, Emmanuel Larson, Mark Gayn, John Service, Lauchlin Currie, Ben Cohen, Thomas Corcoran, J. Edgar Hoover, Tom Clark
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: 1950’s, Journalism or journalists, Communism or communists, 1940’s, 1930’s, Government, Espionage or spies, China or Chinese people, Scandal
- Locales: United States
As the Cold War recedes, distance is clarifying our understanding of many controversial episodes in that bitter conflict. The opening of archives, in Russia, the United States, and elsewhere, has shed much light on these events, providing facts where assertion and assumption once held sway. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ebbing of Communism into irrelevancy, and the remorseless passing of generations, the passions which once distorted any account of the struggle between East and West, socialist and capitalist, are rapidly withering away. It is possible now to study those...
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