Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy

Integrates the diverse details of Alger Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class upbringing and Harvard success to his role as a martyr to McCarthyism[I.E. anti-Communism, the Hiss Case did not involve McCarthy in any way]--to present intriguing evidence that Hiss, contrary to popular opinion, was indeed a Soviet spy, limning a remarkable portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie.