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Shortly before 9 p.m. on June 19, 1953, Columnist Bob Considine stepped in front of newsreel cameras set up outside the walls of Sing Sing Prison to give his eyewitness account of the executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. The old pro obliged his audience with a few grisly details and a note of piety. "Ethel Rosenberg," he said, "met her maker and will have a lot of explaining...
...left to history. Now, under the name of the couple who adopted them (Anne and Abel Meeropol), Robert, 28, and Michael, 32, have come forward with a Rosenberg book of their own. It is anything but a literary experience. Half of the book consists of Ethel's and Julius' death-house letters. These are interspersed with the sons' rather sketchy autobiographies, plus a long revisionist analysis of the cold war by Michael, who holds a Ph.D. in economics...
...that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice. He added that his brother-in-law Julius Rosenberg had recruited him to steal secrets from Los Alamos...
...Meeropol boys offer no new evidence that might clear their parents' name. Many of the Rosenbergs' letters have been published before. Some were circulated to generate sympathy during the long appeal process. Tune has not been kind to Ethel's and Julius' prose, either. Embarrassingly personal passages about the torments of separation from each other and from their children bleed profusely into the strident hyperbole of 1930s left-wing rhetoric. An occasional sentence survives questions of guilt, innocence and politics. On a visit to Sing Sing, the older Michael vented his ten-year...
Blown Cover. Despite the long hair and mustaches, the original family resemblance is there. At times, Michael shares Ethel's expression of willed serenity; Robert has Julius' eyes and nose. Both have had fine educations paid for out of a trust fund set up 22 years ago by Rosenberg Defense Lawyer Emanuel Bloch. Robert has a degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Michael studied economics at Swarthmore and read history at King's College, Cambridge, where he lived in rooms above E.M. Forster. "He once complained my parties were too loud, but when I explained...