In the Court of Public Opinion

 Self-serving obfuscation by the wonder boy of the left who refused to acknowledge his guilt despite all the evidence marshaled against him. He saw himself as the hapless victim of numerous forces, namely, the congressional committee that investigated him, the media, the courts, an ambitious and win-at-all-costs Richard Nixon, and, of course, his accuser Whittaker Chambers. If you want to slog through page after page of explanations of how Hiss's typewriter might have been cloned to frame him, and if you enjoy tedious comparisons of typewriter keys and documents that might have been forged upon them, then this is the book for you. Frankly, by the end I had read all I wanted to about Woodstock typewriter #230099.