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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History, by Susan Jacoby. Yale, March 2009. $24
Decades after he was accused by Whittaker Chambers of serving as a spy for the Soviet Union, Alger Hiss continues to draw both widespread scorn and sympathy. Jacoby traces the debates concerning Hiss through the Cold War as a way of exploring developments in US cultural and intellectual life....