Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case
“Walter Schneir’s willingness to acknowledge his own mistakes in the interest of historical truth makes all the more powerful his posthumous argument that new evidence throws light on precisely what Julius and Ethel Rosenberg did and didn’t do. And Miriam Schneir’s preface and afterword make clear why anyone who cares about our democracy should care about the truth of what happened here.”—Victor Navasky, author ofNaming NamesandA Matter of Opinion Praise forInvitation to an Inquest“A major event in the history of the celebrated case.”—The New York Times “Some of the best detective work in modern journalism.”—The Nation “Shows that the atom bomb secrets which [the Rosenbergs] were accused of giving the Russians were naïve caricatures of scientific diagrams with little or no value. . . the execution of the Rosenbergs seems more meaningless than ever.”—Arthur Miller