Re-read "The Brother" by Sam Roberts, about the Rosenberg spy case, with emphasis on David Greenglass, who ratted out Ethel Rosenberg to save his and his wife's skins. Like nearly everything else written about the Rosenberg case, it uses facts highly selectively and over-relies on Venona.
I've read it, TB. It was an eye-opening book, to say the least. But it wasn't nearly as good as the article a friend of mine wrote about the Rosenthals .
I met Roberts in 2002, soon after his book was published, when he gave a talk at Kean College in Union NJ. Nice fellow. He's four years younger than I and grew up in East Flatbush just a few blocks from where I grew up in Brownsville. Nice fellow, but absolutely intransigent on the Rosenbergs' (not Rosenthals') guilt.
You know, I ALWAYS do that. It's embarrassing. But here's why, TB:
As you know, the RosenBERGS were layed out at the old IJ Morris location in Brooklyn, but there were photos of that funeral all over the office at the newer location on Flatbush Avenue. And there was a corporate big shot who was based out of that location. His last name was RosenTHAL. It's some kind of Freudian slip on my part, I guess .
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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