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In the early 1950’s, a wily amoral demagogue named Joe McCarthy managed to infect the entire land of the free and home of the brave with the dread of Communist subversion. The lives of countless hundreds of innocent people were disrupted. And two lives—those of a young Jewish couple convicted not of revealing secrets of the atom bomb to agents of Soviet Russia, but of conspiring to reveal them—on the electric chair.
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Electric Chairs To Highchairs
DANIEL
Directed by Sidney Lumet (Paramount)
by John Ned Mendelssohn
In the early 1950’s, a wily amoral demagogue named Joe McCarthy managed to infect the entire land of the free and home of the brave with the dread of Communist subversion. The lives of countless hundreds of innocent people were disrupted. And two lives—those of a young Jewish couple convicted not of revealing secrets of the atom bomb to agents of Soviet Russia, but of conspiring to reveal them—on the electric chair.
Imagining the devastation the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s executions must have wreaked on their children, E.L. Doctorow produced one of the most extraordinarily affecting novels of the 70s. To read The Book Of Daniel was nearly to be consumed by retroactive outrage at the horrors of that most shameful epoch in modem American history.