An execution in the family : one son's journey /
Meeropol, Robert.
An execution in the family : one son's journey / Robert Meeropol. - 1st edition - New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2003. - xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
The author is the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1. Losing at Monopoly -- 2. New name, new life -- 3. Disguised as a mild-mannered liberal -- 4. Mush-head -- 5. Rosenberg son -- 6. Denial and defeat -- 7. Realizing the dream -- 8. On David Greenglass's doorstep -- 9. Defeating death -- 10. Constructive revenge -- 11. Epilogue
Robert Meeropol (born May 14, 1947 as Robert Rosenberg) is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Julius was an electrical engineer and a member of the Communist Party. His mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, was also active in the Communist Party. In 1953, during infamous McCarthy witch hunt period, his parents were convicted and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, and specifically for passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union during World War II. Robert and his brother were adopted by the song writer ("Strange Fruit," "The House I Live In," Abel Meeropol and his wife, Anne. "What is compelling about Robert Meeropol's poignant memoir is his utter honesty in examining the question of whether his parents were guilty of espionage. Yet this extraordinary candor does not diminish his anger at that travesty of justice that deprived him of his mother and father. His story is a personal, anguished search for truth, even while it illuminates a tragi moment in the history of o ur country" -- Howard Zinn, from the back cover. "Robert Meeropol is the founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) .... He has been a progressive activist, author, and speaker for thirty years. Since its founding in 1990, the RFC has provided for the education and emotional needs of both targeted activist youth and children in this country whose parents have been harassed, injured, jailed, have lost jobs, or died in the course of their progressive activities ...." -- from the back cover
0312306377 (pbk) 0312306369
2003043117
Meeropol, Robert.
Social reformers--United States--Biography.
Political activists--United States--Biography.
Anti-communist movements
Social action--United States.
Social problems--United States.
HV 28 .M365 / A3 2003
364.66/092 B
An execution in the family : one son's journey / Robert Meeropol. - 1st edition - New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2003. - xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
The author is the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1. Losing at Monopoly -- 2. New name, new life -- 3. Disguised as a mild-mannered liberal -- 4. Mush-head -- 5. Rosenberg son -- 6. Denial and defeat -- 7. Realizing the dream -- 8. On David Greenglass's doorstep -- 9. Defeating death -- 10. Constructive revenge -- 11. Epilogue
Robert Meeropol (born May 14, 1947 as Robert Rosenberg) is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Julius was an electrical engineer and a member of the Communist Party. His mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, was also active in the Communist Party. In 1953, during infamous McCarthy witch hunt period, his parents were convicted and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, and specifically for passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union during World War II. Robert and his brother were adopted by the song writer ("Strange Fruit," "The House I Live In," Abel Meeropol and his wife, Anne. "What is compelling about Robert Meeropol's poignant memoir is his utter honesty in examining the question of whether his parents were guilty of espionage. Yet this extraordinary candor does not diminish his anger at that travesty of justice that deprived him of his mother and father. His story is a personal, anguished search for truth, even while it illuminates a tragi moment in the history of o ur country" -- Howard Zinn, from the back cover. "Robert Meeropol is the founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) .... He has been a progressive activist, author, and speaker for thirty years. Since its founding in 1990, the RFC has provided for the education and emotional needs of both targeted activist youth and children in this country whose parents have been harassed, injured, jailed, have lost jobs, or died in the course of their progressive activities ...." -- from the back cover
0312306377 (pbk) 0312306369
2003043117
Meeropol, Robert.
Social reformers--United States--Biography.
Political activists--United States--Biography.
Anti-communist movements
Social action--United States.
Social problems--United States.
HV 28 .M365 / A3 2003
364.66/092 B