Transcript of three tape-recorded interviews with Alger Hiss conducted in 1975 by Edward Robb Ellis for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, 1983.

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Transcript of three tape-recorded interviews with Alger Hiss conducted in 1975 by Edward Robb Ellis for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, 1983.

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Hiss describes his role in and impressions of the conferences at Yalta, Dumbarton Oaks, and San Francisco; the details and consequences of the "Pumpkin Papers Case"; his political philosophy; his opinions of the New Deal, the Cold War, McCarthyism and similar trials (Ellsberg, Berrigan, and the Chicago Seven); he describes his impressions of Justice Holmes and other Supreme Court Justices, New Deal personalities, John Foster Dulles, and Adlai Steveson.

[4], 282 leaves ; 28 cm.

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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