Fifty years after their execution in June 1953 for conspiringto steal atomic secrets, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg remain thesubjects of great emotional debate and acrimony. The man whosetestimony almost single-handedly convicted them was EthelRosenberg’s own brother, David Greenglass. Though the Rosenbergswere executed, Greenglass served a mere ten years in prison, afterwhich, with a new name, he disappeared. But journalist SamRoberts found Greenglass, and then managed to convince him to talkabout everything that had happened. So here at last is the mesmerizing inside story of the Rosenbergcase: What were their lives like growing up on the Lower East Side?How was David Greenglass enlisted in a plot to hand over to theSoviets our greatest national secret? And how, finally, did thewhole thing unravel? Even beyond that, The Brother reveals howDavid Greenglass perjured himself in testifying about his sisterand her husband—testimony that virtually strapped them into theelectric chair.
The Brother is a great narrative, far more mesmerizing thananything else written on the subject. It is a story of espionage.It is the story of a trial. And, most tragically, it is the storyof a family.
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