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03104aam a2200397 i 4500 001 567F9850527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211201010015 007 tb 008 211123s2021 mnu d 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1432892827 020 $a 9781432892821 035 $a (OCoLC)1286065644 040 $a HBP $b eng $e rda $c HBP $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Sebba, Anne, $e author. 245 10 $a Ethel Rosenberg : $b an American tragedy / $c Anne Sebba. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 535 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 500 $a Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfield & Nicolson. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950's. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother to her two small boys, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn't committed, orphaning her two young sons. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel's story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Rosenberg, Ethel, $d 1915-1953. 650 0 $a Communists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Spies $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030453.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20220902011621.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211201010105.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=567F9850527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search