Learn about the case -- historical background and documents

Note: Those wishing to read further about the Rosenberg case should keep in mind that much of the literature below was written by those with a personal connection to the case, and because the question of Julius and Ethel’s guilt remained open for decades after their deaths, some authors approached the topic with advocacy for a particular view of the case. Many books about the case were written prior to the declassification of FBI files in the 1970s and 1980s, the opening of the Soviet archives in the early 1990s, the U.S. government’s release of intercepted Soviet cables in 1995, the unsealing of grand jury testimony in 2008, and interviews given by David Greenglass and Morton Sobell between 2001 and 2010.

Bibliography:

Alman, Emily Arnow and David. Exoneration: The Rosenberg–Sobell Case in the 21^st Century. Seattle: Green Elms Press, 2010.

Feklisov, Alexander. The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: by the KGB Spymaster who was the Case Officer of Julius Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Enigma Books, 2001.

Fineberg, S. Andhil. The Rosenberg Case: Fact and Fiction. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1953.

Garber, Marjorie, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Gardner, Virginia. The Rosenberg Story. New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1954.

Goldstein, Alvin H. The Unquiet Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. New York: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1975.

Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Meeropol, Michael, ed. The Rosenberg Letters: A Complete Edition of the Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994.

Meeropol, Robert, and Michael. We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Second Edition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Neville, John F. The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995.

Nizer, Louis. The Implosion Conspiracy. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1973.

Parrish, Michael E. “Cold War Justice: The Supreme Court and the Rosenbergs.” American Historical Review 82, no. 4 (October 1977): 805–42.

Radosh, Ronald, and Joyce Milton. The Rosenberg File, Second Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Roberts, Sam. The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair. New York: Random House, 2001.

Root, Jonathan. The Betrayers: The Rosenberg Case—A Reappraisal of an American Crisis. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1963.

Schneir, Walter. Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House, 2010.

Schneir, Walter and Miriam. Invitation to an Inquest, Fourth Edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Sharlitt, Joseph H. Fatal Error: The Miscarriage of Justice that Sealed the Rosenbergs’ Fate. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989.

Sharp, Malcolm P. Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg–Sobell Case. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1956.

Snyder, Brad. “Taking Great Cases: Lessons from the Rosenberg Case.” Vanderbilt Law Review 63, no. 4 (May 2010): 885–956.

Weinstein, Allen, and Alexander Vassiliev. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era. New York: Random House, 1999.

Wexley, John. The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1955.