The Brother

The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case

Sam Roberts

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476747392
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Storia nordamericana

"A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century" ( The Washington Post ), The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003—including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet spy and a confession to the author by the Rosenbergs' co-defendant. Sixty years after their execution in June 1953 for conspiring to steal atomic secrets, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg remain the subjects of great emotional debate and acrimony. The man whose testimony almost single-handedly convicted them was Ethel Rosenberg's own brother, David Greenglass. Though the Rosenbergs were executed, Greenglass served a mere ten years in prison, after which, with a new name, he disappeared. But journalist Sam Roberts found Greenglass, and then managed to convince him to talk about everything that had happened.Since the original publication of The Brother, Roberts sued to release grand jury testimony, which further implicates Greenglass and demonstrates how the prosecution was tainted. One of the defendants, Morton Sobell, admitted to Roberts that he and Julius Rosenberg were spies. Furthermore, Michael and Robert Meeropol, the Rosenbergs' sons, acknowledged to Roberts that although their mother was not legally culpable, that the "secret" to the atomic bomb was not compromised, and that the death penalty was excessive, their father was, in fact, guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union.Now released with this important new information, The Brother is more than ever, "A gripping account of the most famous espionage case in US history…an excellent book, written with flair and alive with the agony of the age" ( The Wall Street Journal ).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1. The Brother of Death
• Chapter 2. The House on Sheriff Street
• Chapter 3. Ethel and Julius
• Chapter 4. Drafted
• Chapter 5. Mail Call
• Chapter 6. The Replacement
• Chapter 7. Los Alamos
• Chapter 8. The Go-Between
• Chapter 9. Route 66
• Chapter 10. I Spy
• Chapter 11. Espionage 101
• Chapter 12. Moscow Gold
• Chapter 13. Little Boy and Fat Man
• Chapter 14. Diamonds
• Chapter 15. Blackmail
• Chapter 16. Venona
• Chapter 17. Liberal
• Chapter 18. The Bomb
• Chapter 19. Shmel
• Chapter 20. What Did You Do in the War?
• Chapter 21. “Red Hot”
• Chapter 22. The First Confession
• Chapter 23. The Formula
• Chapter 24. Mr. Cooperation
• Chapter 25. A Lever
• Chapter 26. Talking the Talk
• Chapter 27. Trial and Error
• Chapter 28. The Gamble
• Chapter 29. The Defense
• Chapter 30. Death by Electrocution
• Chapter 31. Sing Sing
• Chapter 32. Relativity
• Chapter 33. Blindman’s Buff
• Chapter 34. Lewisburg
• Chapter 35. The Search for David Greenglass
• Chapter 36. The Final Confession
• Chapter 37. The Final Chapter
• Epilogue: Case Closed
• Photographs
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright