The part he played in history. I think maybe for the sake of our audience we might want to start out with just who is l. G. Who was alger hiss. Well, that is a great question. Just before i answer it, just. Thank you, matt. Thank you edgartown books. Thank you for having me and having us at st andrews parish house. Its a wonderful space and its wonderful to be here. My family is a great lover of marthas vineyard. And so its its a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Thank you. Alger hiss is an enigma inside enigma. He is the great. I suppose you would have to say him. The great iago of the 20th century. People have been trying to figure out who alger hiss really was, not just if he guilty or innocent to start alger hiss was convicted. 1950 of spying for the soviet union. He was convicted of lying about knowing his accuser and when he knew him at his Whittaker Chambers, he was for perjury about passing a Top Secret State Department documents to his handler, Whittaker Chambers, in the lat
Who was alger hiss. Well, that is a great question. Just before i answer it, just. Thank you, matt. Thank you edgartown books. Thank you for having me and having us at st andrews parish house. Its a wonderful space and its wonderful to be here. My family is a great lover of marthas vineyard. And so its its a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Thank you. Alger hiss is an enigma inside enigma. He is the great. I suppose you would have to say him. The great iago of the 20th century. People have been trying to figure out who alger hiss really was, not just if he guilty or innocent to start alger hiss was convicted. 1950 of spying for the soviet union. He was convicted of lying about knowing his accuser and when he knew him at his Whittaker Chambers, he was for perjury about passing a Top Secret State Department documents to his handler, Whittaker Chambers, in the late 1930s. And no big deal, certainly not by the 1950s. We now know today with all the new information that has come to the fo
So i dont. And i all my life have been aware of the name of alger hiss. But i dont really understand the part he played in history. I think maybe for the sake of our audience we might want to start out with just who is l. G. Who was alger hiss. Well, that is a great question. Just before i answer it, just. Thank you, matt. Thank you edgartown books. Thank you for having me and having us at st andrews parish house. Its a wonderful space and its wonderful to be here. My family is a great lover of marthas vineyard. And so its its a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Thank you. Alger hiss is an enigma inside enigma. He is the great. I suppose you would have to say him. The great iago of the 20th century. People have been trying to figure out who alger hiss really was, not just if he guilty or innocent to start alger hiss was convicted. 1950 of spying for the soviet union. He was convicted of lying about knowing his accuser and when he knew him at his Whittaker Chambers, he was for perjury
David, lets start out with something. Book is about the trial of alger hiss. The perjury trial, which place a when i was in diapers and not a young man. So i dont. And i all my life have been aware of the name of alger hiss. But i dont really understand the part he played in history. I think maybe for the sake of our audience we might want to start out with just who is l. G. Who was alger hiss. Well, that is a great question. Just before i answer it, just. Thank you, matt. Thank you edgartown books. Thank you for having me and having us at st andrews parish house. Its a wonderful space and its wonderful to be here. My family is a great lover of marthas vineyard. And so its its a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Thank you. Alger hiss is an enigma inside enigma. He is the great. I suppose you would have to say him. The great iago of the 20th century. People have been trying to figure out who alger hiss really was, not just if he guilty or innocent to start alger hiss was convicted. 19
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