Reminiscences of Alger Hiss, 1975.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, government official

Scope and Contents

Role 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

Subjects

• Ellis, Edward Robb, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Hiss, Alger--Interviews.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of State.