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Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
Barbara Krasner
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Calkins Creek/Astra BFYR/Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 978-1-63592-625-5
Keywords: poetry, spies, Communists, capital punishment, conspiracies, labor movement, WWII, Jewish immigrants, Soviet Union, atomic bomb, betrayal, brothers & sisters
Krasner's verses illuminate the short, impassioned life of Ethel Rosenberg, executed as a spy in a probable rush to judgment during the intensely anti-Soviet 1950s. Source notes, time line, bibliography.