Download or read book Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars written by G. Edward White and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates the diverse details of Alger Hiss's life--from his upper middle-class upbringing and Harvard success to his role as a martyr to McCarthyism--to present intriguing evidence that Hiss, contrary to popular opinion, was indeed a Soviet spy, limning a remarkable portrait of a man whose life was devoted to perpetuating a lie.