We Are Your Sons; The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Written by Their Children Robert and Michael Meeropol
Barry Rosenthal (authors photograph) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 419, [5] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Chronology. Appendix. Notes. Index. DJ somewhat worn & soiled: small edge tears/chips. Inscribed by the co-author Michael Meeropol. The sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg tell their own story, weaving the nightmare events of 1950-1954--trial, appeals, execution of their parents, and court battles over guardianship--with many of the letters Ethel and Julius wrote while in prison. The sons also discuss their adoptive parents, Anne and Abel Meeropol, who provided them with security and emotional stability. The sons remained convinced of their parents' innocence. Michael Meeropol (born Michael Rosenberg on March 10, 1943) is an American economist, author, radio commentator, and retired professor of economics. He is professor emeritus of economics at Western New England University and has written extensively on United States economic policy. Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (born Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. They were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime. Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass (who had made a plea agreement), Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, was convicted in the United Kingdom. For decades, many people, including the Rosenbergs' sons (Michael and Robert Meeropol), have maintained that Ethel was innocent of spying and have sought an exoneration on her behalf from multiple U.S. presidents. However, this theory has been discarded based on additional information made available since the fall of the Soviet Union which indicated extensive involvement by both.
Among records the U.S. government declassified after the fall of the Soviet Union are many related to the Rosenbergs, including a trove of decoded Soviet cables (code-name Venona), which detailed Julius's role as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets. In 2008, the National Archives of the United States published most of the grand jury testimony related to the prosecution of the Rosenbergs. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed about the Rosenbergs and the legal case against them have resulted in additional U.S. government records being made public, including formerly classified materials from U.S. intelligence agencies. KGB messages which were contained in the Venona project's Alexander Vassiliev files, and which were not made public until 2009, revealed that both Ethel and Julius had regular contact with at least two KGB agents and were active in recruiting both David Greenglass and Russell McNutt. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Atomic Bomb, Espionage, Emanuel Bloch, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell, Irving Kaufman, Spies, Treason
ISBN: 0395205522
[Book #54934]
Price: $95.00