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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy (édition 2021)

par Anne Sebba (Auteur)

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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950's. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother to her two small boys, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn't committed, orphaning her two young sons. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel's story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens"--… (plus d'informations)
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excellent writing. while she shows the "facts". she also tries to show us what is going on in America and the world at the time. ( )
  evatkaplan | Nov 6, 2022 |
This biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife of Julius Rosenberg who followed her husband to the electric chair in an infamous espionage case, is a book which the power to haunt its readers. Ethel was a woman who was both ordinary and connected to people with dangerous knowledge. A housewife with two children, she was, in part, the ideal 1950s woman, but she was also a socialist and was deeply in love with her husband. She steadfastly stood by her husband, who likely was a Soviet spy, even when her own brother betrayed her and offered testimony which laid the groundwork for her own conviction. This makes for a sad, haunting tale, especially when the author details the story of Ethel and Julius's two sons after their execution. Overall, this a key work of nonfiction for understanding the Rosenbergs and their story. ( )
  wagner.sarah35 | Aug 4, 2022 |
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the chance to listen to this story in exchange for an honest review.

Ethel Rosenberg was executed by electrocution on June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. She was considered an American spy along with her husband, Julius.

Anne Sebba delves into Ethel's life from her upbringing with the mother she never emotionally connected with or felt loved by to the moment she met her husband and fell in love. From the moment they met, Ethel and Julius were inseparable. Ethel would support her husband in anything he chose to do, including being a part of the Communist party. When Julius is brought in for questioning Ethel is called in shortly behind. She continues to be supportive of Julius despite the fact that her life is at risk.

Sebba gets into the details of how Ethel's brother and sister-in-law turned her in and lied about her work for the Communist party. Through it all, Ethel continues to support her husband. Ethel and Julius are found guilty and sentenced to death. Ethel's maintained her innocence until the very end.

I found this book to be extremely interesting. I have long wanted to read about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and found this to give a wonderful background story on Ethel's life and ultimate death. There were times the story felt a little drawn out but they were few and far between. Anne Sebba did a wonderful research job and told a very thorough story. ( )
  Micareads | Jun 21, 2022 |
This book focuses on the life and trial of Ethel Rosenberg, convicted and sentenced to death for espionage. The book draws on prison letters she exchanged with her husband, lawyer and psychotherapist while she was imprisoned. Overall, I thought this book was very slow and plodding. Ethel's story was told in a dry and dispassionate way. Overall, 2 out of 5 stars. ( )
  JanaRose1 | Jun 1, 2022 |
I wanted to read this book when I heard of it because I've wanted to know more about the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in 1953 for espionage for many years This book focuses on the life of Ethel and the trial which led to her conviction and death. I wasn't sure to expect, as I was a little bit disappointed by the other Anne Sebba book which I've read, The Parisiennes, and Sebba's previous writing CV involved Britain's more conservative broadsheet newspapers and magazines and books about wealthy and rather right wing socialites.

I was particularly interested in Sebba's portrait of Ethel Greenglass's early life, her family, schooling and life as a factory worker, trade union activist and talented singer/musician. However, after marrying Julius Rosenberg, she seems to have settled into a very traditional wife and mother role, reading child rearing and psychology books for guidance on the best way to bring up a challenging young son and deal with the issues they faced. I found this quite sad and frustrating, as I think the author perhaps did from a 20th century feminist perspective. Other 50s leftist American women perhaps pushed the boundaries of traditional roles more, but then, that may just be the women whose lives and experiences are better documented (by themselves or others) because they wrote or were reported on. Of course Ethel Rosenberg attracted lots of newspaper coverage but it was mostly extremely hostile.

Overall, this is a very interesting exploration of how Ethel Rosenberg came to be executed for espionage in favour of the Soviet Union, including research into her husband and family, the difficult issues of how the children might be raised by a family who didn't hate their parents. In this case at least they were adopted together by a supportive and loving couple - their adoptive father was the author of the poem Strange Fruit, best known as a Billie Holiday song about lynching which was itself banned for some years,

Sad, thought provoking and highly recommended, whether your views are broadly liberal in a US sense, liberal feminist (like the author), socialist feminist and even Communist influenced (mine) or something else. ( )
  elkiedee | May 19, 2022 |
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"This country is so heated up about communism at the present moment that the public temper identifies as a friend of the United States any person who is a foe of Stalin" Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court Justice, 1941-1954
"Personal relations are despised today. They are regarded as bourgeois luxuries, as products of a time of fair weather which is now past, and we are urged to get rid of them, and to dedicate ourselves to some movement or cause instead. I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country" E.M. Forster
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In memory of Mark Jonathan Sebba, 1948-2018, whose encouragement to write this book has sustained me.

For Sam and Evelyn Sebba, whose future has also sustained me.
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Friday, June 19, 1953, dawned typically hot and humid in New York, the sort of day later memorably described by the poet Sylvia Plath as sultry.
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"New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950's. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother to her two small boys, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn't committed, orphaning her two young sons. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel's story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens"--

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