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When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously undiscovered or unavailable, bringing the Hiss-Chambers's amazing story up to the present.

For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many minds. Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class childhood in Baltimore and his brilliant success at Harvard to his later career as a self-made martyr to McCarthyism--to paint a fascinating portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie. White catalogs the evidence that proved Hiss's guilt, from Whittaker Chambers's famous testimony, to copies of State Department documents typed on Hiss's typewriter, to Allen Weinstein's groundbreaking investigation in the 1970s. The author then explores the central conundrums of Hiss's life: Why did this talented lawyer become a Communist and a Soviet spy? Why did he devote so much of his life to an extensive public campaign to deny his espionage? And how, without producing any new evidence, did he convince many people that he was innocent? White offers a compelling analysis of Hiss's behavior in the face of growing evidence of his guilt, revealing how this behavior fit into an ongoing pattern of denial and duplicity in his life. The story of Alger Hiss is in part a reflection of Cold War America--a time of ideological passions, partisan battles, and secret lives. It is also a story that transcends a particular historical era--a story about individuals who choose to engage in espionage for foreign powers and the secret worlds they choose to conceal. In White's skilled hands, the life of Alger Hiss comes to illuminate both of those themes.

On this edition of Meet the Press: David Gregory, Chuck Todd, Kate O'Beirne, and Judy Woodruff discuss the debate on Iraq between the President and Congress; the Alberto Gonzales controversy; the 2008 presidential hopefuls.

by William S. Hahn, CEO ol The John Birch Society The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) has a controversial reputation, thanks to a tireless smear campaign by the Left. Welch agreed, writing in the July 1968 IBS Bulletin^Vňs. only place where the HCUA has a bad name is not among patriotic and informed Americans, but among the ComSymps [communist sympathizers] and their Liberal dupes who have been trying desperately for years to have it abolished.'7 Unfortunately,, the federal government today is so rife with bureaucratic steady-Staters that it provides lots of cover for America's enemies to thrive in secrecy. Since 195S, The Jolin Birch Society, the parent organization to The New-Am e rican, has published voluminous proof that the American Republic is being deliberately subverted. The answer to both is an obvious \"no,\" Over the last Several generations in particular, constitutional limits on federal power have been largely set aside, and individual liberties have siminken dramatically.

Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948-that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post-Cold War era. With a brisk, engaging style, Jacoby positions the case in the politics of the post-World War II era and then explores the ways in which generations of liberals and conservatives have put Chambers and Hiss to their own ideological uses. An iconic event of the McCarthy era, the case of Alger Hiss fascinates political intellectuals not only because of its historical significance but because of its timeless relevance to equally fierce debates today about the difficult balance between national security and respect for civil liberties.

Baxter's signature story in anthologies, and the title of his book of selected short fiction, is \"Gryphon,\" a first-rate account of a schoolboy's fascination with the fantastical monologues of a substitute teacher. Inventiveness in dialogue, sensitivity to the contours of thought and feeling between people rooted in a shared vocation, and more than anything, the shaping of sentences and paragraphs into elegant verbal objects redolent of human understanding (and occasionally of laugh-out-loud humor)-these are some of the admirable traits I first noticed in \"Harmony of the World\" and which impress me in all of Baxter's work.

According to their blueprint spelled out in the United Nations' Agenda 2030, the goal is enslavement of humanity. In their place will be dictatorship, loss of parental rights and medical autonomy, coercive population control, forced conscription to UN-controlled police forces, lack of access to dependable and reliable energy sources, criminalization of religion, replacement of national currencies with an international monetary system, and complete civilian disarmament. [...]the same conspirators and their progeny were free to meet in 1944 at the wartime Dumbarton Oaks Conference, which laid the groundwork for fulfillment of their plans for a one world government - a New World Order - by founding the United Nations in 1945. [...]the United Nations can attribute its initial success to the CFR:

On this radio broadcast of Meet the Press, former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers discusses the Hiss-Chambers issue.