Books
THE VIEW FROM ALGER’S WINDOW, A Son’s Memoir; by Tony Hiss; Alfred A. Knopf : $24, 256 pages
June 18, 1999
Opinion
To the editor: Stanford historian Sam Wineburg is concerned about his students’ lack of knowledge of Soviet spying in the United States.
May 31, 2019
World & Nation
Alger Hiss is frail now, at age 87, and his eyesight is failing.
Oct. 30, 1992
Archives
Re “Alger Hiss, Key to Cold War Spy Controversy, Dies at 92,” Nov. 16: Alger Hiss acquitted himself in life rather well.
Nov. 21, 1996
NIXON STILL HISSING: New Russian information redeeming Alger Hiss on espionage accusations during the Cold War have not changed Richard Nixon’s tune about it yet.
Oct. 31, 1992
* Martin Walker (“A Loss of Convictions Since Hiss,” Opinion, Nov. 24) quotes me accurately as saying, “It’s what exactly he [Hiss] was guilty of that still confuses me.”
Nov. 29, 1996
In an otherwise informative and commendable review of Murry Kempton’s latest book (“Rebellions, Perversities, Main Events,” Book Review, April 24), you committed a major error of fact that needs to be corrected.
June 12, 1994
Thomas F. Murphy, 89, a prosecutor in the Alger Hiss case of 1949.
Nov. 2, 1995
Politics
The widow of Whittaker Chambers, whose 1949 testimony helped substantiate the charges her husband had made against former State Department employee Alger Hiss of providing classified information to the Soviet Union, is dead at 86.
Aug. 23, 1986
For the left and the right, the story remains an emblem of their values.
March 22, 2009