ISBN: 9781250198648
Editorial: Griffin
Autor: Sebba, Anne
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 336
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the AuthorANNE SEBBA is a prize-winning biographer, lecturer, and former Reuters foreign correspondent who has written several books, including That Woman and Les Parisiennes. A former chair of Britain’s Society of Authors and now on the Council, Anne is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She lives in London.New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world.In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother.This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple in more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950’s. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn’t committed, orphaning her children.Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel’s story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.Review“[A] riveting biography...thanks to Sebba’s marvelously gripping narration, we encounter a raft of pivotal individuals ― familial and jurisprudential, obscure and politically prominent ― arrayed to save Ethel or, on the opposing side, determined to hasten her demise....Ethel Rosenberg is richly illustrated, adding to the authenticity and vigor of Sebba’s densely peopled narrative. This is not just history, but a cautionary tale.” –Washington Independent Review of Books“Ms. Sebba tells a compelling story of love, betrayal, misplaced idealism and brutal legal and political manoeuvring.” –The Economist“In the end, the book is a plea for Ethel the woman, an attempt to understand who she really was, to free her from the confines of the stock political figure she inevitably became.” –The New York Times, Editor's Choice“A compassionate account of Ethel’s character as a wife and mother...an engrossing narrative.” –The San Francisco Chronicle"Rosenberg’s life was thoroughly American and classically tragic." --New York Daily News“A redefining and redemptive work of astute protest and caution.” –Booklist (starred)"Riveting...Could there be a better time to review 'what can happen when fear, a forceful and blunt weapon in the hands of authority, turns to hysteria and justice is willfully ignored'? A concise yet thorough account of a 1953 miscarriage of justice with alarming relevance today." --Kirkus Reviews (starred)"Sebba delivers a sympathetic portrait....a persuasive argument that Rosenberg’s death was a tragic miscarriage of justice." --Publishers Weekly"Anne Sebba’s brilliant, unforgettable biography is the story of a woman who fell victim to a fatal cocktail of prejudices...superbly written." --The Jewish Chronicle"Sebba has dug deep beneath this famous and archetypically male story of spying, weapons and international tensions to give us an intelligent, sensitive and absorbi
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