num_pages: 560
description: In 1951, Julius &amp; Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiring to steal atomic secrets. Their '53 execution tore American apart. 50 years later, the debate over their guilt, &amp; the emotions unleashed by a case that fueled McCarthyism &amp; the cold war, still reverberate. One man doomed them: David Greenglass, Ethel's brother, a young army sergeant who spied for the USSR at Los Alamos during WWII &amp; whose testimony later sealed his sister &amp; brother-in-law's fate. After serving a decade in prison, he was released in '60 &amp; vanished. But NY Times editor Roberts found him &amp;, after 14 years, persuaded him to talk. Drawn from the 1st unrestricted-access interviews ever granted by Greenglass &amp; supplemented by revelations from dozens of other players in the case--including the Russian agent who controlled Julius Rosenberg; by newly declassified US &amp; USSR government documents; &amp; by personal letters never before published, among them one from Einstein; The Brother is a mesmerizing inside story of misplaced idealism, love &amp; betrayal behind the atomic-espionage case that J. Edgar Hoover called the Crime of the Century. In over 50 hours of taped conversations with the author, Greenglass detailed his recruitment into espionage on Manhattan's Lower East Side, how he spied for the USSR at American's most secret military installation, &amp; how the plot unraveled &amp; led to the arrests of David, Julius &amp; Ethel. Beyond that, this book reveals how Greenglass perjured himself in court--testimony that strapped his sister &amp; brother-in-law into Sing Sing's electric chair. Delivering a narrative punch on every page, The Brother is the story of a family. It's a story of atomic espionage. It's the story of the trial that turned a nation upside down &amp; that still divides the American left.
language: English
title: The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
titlecomplete: The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
genres: Biography, War, Politics, Nonfiction, American History, History, 20th Century, Espionage, Crime, True Crime
ratings_count: 256
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Random House (NY)