On November 27, 1954, Alger Hiss was released from the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, after serving forty-four months of a five-year-prison sentence for perjury. On that day, surrounded by friends, family, and the press, Hiss defiantly announced his campaign to “vindicate” himself, a campaign that continues to this very day, despite Hiss’s death in 1996 at the age of 92. . . .