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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy BY ANNE SEBBA St. Martin's Press, 306 pages ANNE SEBBA has just published the third biography of Ethel Rosenberg, who was executed in 1953 along [...]

Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution. By ARTHUR M. ECKSTEIN Yale University Press, 352 pages IN Bad Moon Rising, Arthur M. Eckstein [...]

ATOMIC SPYThe Dark Lives of Klaus FuchsBy Nancy Thorndike Greenspan The physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-88) is well known as the atomic spy who gave details of everything he worked on [...]

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror, by Victor Sebestyen (Pantheon, 592 pp., $35) SINCE the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and its client states, [...]

True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy, by Kati Marton (Simon & Schuster, 304 pp., $27) Those familiar with the Alger Hiss case may remember Noel Field as one of the [...]

IN THE ENEMY'S HOUSE The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies By Howard Blum Illustrated. 317 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $29.99. In [...]

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 By ADAM HOCHSCHILD Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 438 pages DELMAR BERG was the last living veteran of the Abraham Lincoln [...]

Robert Service Trotsky: A Biography. Belknap Press, 600 pages, $35 Bertrand M. Patenaude Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary. HarperCollins, 370 pages, $27.99 F or many years, the accepted version of [...]

Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism BY THOMAS W. DEVINE University of North Carolina Press, 424 pages RECENTLY, there has been an attempt by the [...]

Chicago IF IT looked like the Sixties on Sunday, the day before the official opening of the Democratic National Convention, it was meant to. At a rally held to commemorate [...]

American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation BY MICHAEL KAZIN Knopf, 352 pages Michael Kazin-coeditor of Dissent magazine, one-time leader of the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic [...]

Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case BY WALTER SCHNEIR, EDITED WITH PREFACE AND AFTERWORD BY MIRIAM SCHNEIR Melville House Publishing, 272 pages The late Walter Schneir and [...]

FOLK CITY New York and the American Folk Music Revival By Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen Illustrated. 320 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. How New York City and specifically [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh At the annual conference of the American Historical Association in New York City this month, anti-Israeli activist historians suffered a rare double defeat. Calling themselves Historians Against [...]

The South African Communist Party, once an advocate of democratic socialism, has reverted to hardline Stalinism with a recent change in leadership. Its control over the African National Congress will determine the political and economic make-up of post-apartheid South Africa.

WAYFARING STRANGERS The Musical Voyage From Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia By Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr Illustrated. 361 pp. The University of North Carolina Press. $39.95. RALPH PEER AND [...]

From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship BY PAUL HOLLANDER Cambridge University Press, 325 pages Thirty-five years ago, a book called Political Pilgrims [...]

The article focuses on letters to the editors discussing various topics, including the War Refugee Board's efforts to save Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, President Roosevelt's role in immigration policy, and Judge Irving Kaufman's legacy. The first letter highlights the accomplishments of the War Refugee Board, the second letter counters Ruth Franklin's claims about Roosevelt's immigration policy and the third letter discusses Judge Irving Kaufman's legacy.

Byline: Ronald Radosh When Joshua Muravchik wrote this book, he could not have known how timely it would turn out to be. He would not have been surprised, however, by [...]

The Revolt against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, by Fred Siegel (Encounter, 240 pp., $23.99) For those who grew up on the history of liberalism and […]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Pete Seeger's death at the age of 94 has brought forth scores of celebratory tributes. America had long ago showered him with honors, which all but made [...]

Byline: Ronald Radosh Reading this provocative and compelling analysis of John F. Kennedy's political vision, I could not help but think of the reaction Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. had when [...]