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100 1 $aHiss, Tony.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50034217
245 14 $aThe view from Alger's window :$ba son's memoir /$cTony Hiss.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c1999.
300 $a241 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aUsing his father's letters from prison - three a week, two pages long, were allowed - and other family letters never before made public, as well as the recollections of friends and relatives, Tony Hiss moves back and forth in time to tell the story of Alger Hiss's life, and of his own experience as a young boy swept up in the turmoil of the trial that signaled the opening of the Cold War.
520 8 $aFor the first time we meet the man his family and friends knew as warm and witty, honest to a fault, intellectually searching, and enormously giving to those he loved. For the first time, too, we hear from Alger's stepson, Timothy Holsson, a boy of ten in the thirties when the disputed events occurred, who tells his side of the story.
520 8 $aTony Hiss was just turning seven in 1948 when the charges against his father surfaced, and we see how he and his mother tried, with varying success, to cope with what was happening to them as fair-weather friends, and income, and jobs, dropped away. We also see how the friends who did remain created a protective bubble around them, enabling them to survive.
520 8 $aAnd finally we learn how, almost miraculously, Alger's letters and the prison visits brought Tony and his father closer than they had ever been, and how perhaps the whole experience gave Alger Hiss a kind and common touch he had previously lacked.
600 10 $aHiss, Alger.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059600
600 10 $aHiss, Alger$vTrials, litigation, etc.
600 10 $aHiss, Alger$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHiss, Tony.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50034217
610 10 $aUnited States.$bDepartment of State$xOfficials and employees$vBiography.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124168
650 0 $aTrials (Perjury)$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aPrisoners$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108921
650 0 $aSubversive activities$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010114991
852 00 $bglx$hE743.5.H55$iH57 1999