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AMERICA’S DREYFUS The Case Nixon Rigged OTHER BOOKS BY JOAN BRADY THEORY OF WAR Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year (now Costa) Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger “A modern work of genius.” SPECTATOR “An ecstasy, made up of beauty, pain, cruelty and splendour.” SUNDAY TIMES THE UNMAKING OF A DANCER “As an autobiography of adolescence, it reposes, like the young dancer herself, in the very highest class” SUNDAY TIMES “Eloquent and passionate…magnificent” LITERARY REVIEW DEATH COMES FOR PETER PAN Shortlisted for the Mind Prize, Longlisted for the Orange Prize “A devastating love story that lances the festering boil of injustice at the heart of the American health care system.” ESQUIRE “A Kafkaesque thriller... a fable for our times …enthralling” OBSERVER THE ÉMIGRÉ Amazon.co.uk First Book Choice “A character study of the most exotic sort… A rich and mesmerising tale” TIME OUT “Dazzlingly fantastic … compelling” TIMES BLEEDOUT Australia’s Most Talked About Book of the Week “BUY IT…brilliant…move over John Grisham” MIRROR “A crime novel par excellence” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY VENOM “Stunning” DAILY TELEGRAPH “Deftly woven elegantly written” DAILY MAIL THE BLUE DEATH Observer Thriller of the Month “Terrifying...compelling…an intelligent, refreshingly different take on the thriller” OBSERVER “Sharp and fierce and clever, full of horrid little details and appalled by the arrogance of domination and the weakness of submission. Impressive.” GUARDIAN Alger Hiss Secretary General of the United Nations Organizing Conference President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Prisoner 19137 Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary AMERICA’S DREYFUS The Case Nixon Rigged By Joan Brady First published 2015 by Skyscraper Publications Talton Edge, Newbold on Stour, Warks CV37 8TR, U.K. www.skyscraperpublications.com Copyright © 2015 Joan Brady The author’s rights are fully asserted. The right of Joan Brady to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Nor be circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-0-9931533-4-1 Cover design by Grace Fussell Typeset by Chandler Book Design Printed and bound in Great Britain by Latitude Press Ltd CONTENTS Introduction PART ONE Alger Hiss comes to dinner PART TWO HUAC in hot pursuit PART THREE Smoking guns PART FOUR The trial of the century PART FIVE Aftermath Acknowledgments Bibliography Endnotes Picture Credits Index America’s Dreyfus: The Case Nixon Rigged by Joan Brady

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Every American schoolchild knows of the crimes of Alger Hiss, a man whose very name rings with villainy. Communist, spy, perjurer - all of these accusations were bandied around in public and led to Hiss's downfall. Outside the US, Alger Hiss is less well-known, but the man who caused Hiss's downfall
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