Free Download Martin J. Siegel, "Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs"
English | ISBN: 1501768522 | 2023 | 448 pages | PDF | 4 MB
As featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.
In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irving Robert Kaufman, the judge infamous for condemning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage.
In 1951, world attention fixed on Kaufman's courtroom as its ambitious young occupant stridently blamed the Rosenbergs for the Korean War. To many, the harsh sentences and their preening author left an enduring stain on American justice. But then the judge from Cold War central casting became something unexpected: one of the most illustrious progressive jurists of his day.
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