Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Alger Hiss, 1975
Creator: | Hiss, Alger | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | transcript: 230 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLawyer, government official
Scope and ContentsRole in, impressions of conferences at Yalta, Dumbarton Oaks, San Francisco; details and consequences of the "Pumpkin papers case;" political philosophy; opinions on the New Deal, cold war, McCarthyism, parallel trials (Ellsberg, Berrigan, Chicago Seven), books written about his trials; impressions of Justice Holmes, other Supreme Court justices, New Deal personalities, John Foster Dulles, Adlai Stevenson
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