Culture | America’s Dreyfus?
Julius Rosenberg was a Soviet spy. Ethel’s case is murkier
A new biography seeks to rehabilitate a woman cruelly executed for espionage
Ethel Rosenberg. By Anne Sebba. St Martin’s Press; 320 pages; $28.99. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; £20
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