Alger Hiss and Soviet Espionage Operations: A Failed Quest to Rewrite History
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2025

Jeff Kisseloff, Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2025. 389 pp.In this new book Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, the journalist Jeff Kisseloff sets out to provide a new history of Alger Hiss's conviction on perjury charges in 1950. The statute of limitations for espionage had expired by 1950, but the perjury conviction was essentially equivalent to saying that Hi