Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sister of Julius Rosenberg and am responding to your book review of The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton [Aug. 22]. The lies and smears prevalent to this day have blinded Radosh and Milton to the truth of the Rosenbergs' total innocence...
NONFICTION: Andropov. Zhores A. Medvedev •The Book of America, Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey Lost in the Cosmos. Walker Percy Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Philip Kolb, editor •The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton...
...Rosenberg File dispassionately supports its subjects' guilt and at the same time dramatically documents the ragged and unsavory way that justice was served. Historian Ronald Radosh and Writer Joyce Milton disclose an embarrassing trail of legal blundering, intimidation, judicial improprieties and political expedience. Emanuel Bloch, principal attorney for the Rosenbergs, repeatedly played into his opponents' hands, spoke when he should have remained silent, and said nothing when he should have argued. Said an outmaneuvered Bloch at one point: "For the purposes of going over the Government's witnesses' testimony which we think is fatal..." He meant...
...source of the avowals. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, who prosecuted the case, made prejudicial statements to the press. FBI and Atomic Energy Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous job of deciding for capital punishment, but there were also his pious remarks from the bench. In a 1958 letter to Federal Judge Learned Hand, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, "I despise a Judge who feels God told...
...verdict of The Rosenberg File is that there was no frame-up, although some of the evidence was tainted. Radosh and Milton also conclude that the penalty was inappropriate, in part because the Rosenbergs did not, as the prosecution maintained, give the vital secret of the bomb to the Soviet Union. In all likelihood, that was done by Physicist Klaus Fuchs, and he was sentenced to only 14 years. The authors answer many questions and satisfy much curiosity, but theirs is not a book that one can finish and say "Rest in peace." -By R.Z. Sheppard...