This exhaustively researched book -- all 608 pages of it -- is as much about understanding the nation's anti-communist psyche in the 1950s as it is about what some have called the most publicized spy hunt in history.
The authors don't reject the guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But they challenge the notion that they were crafty traitors whose theft of the atom bomb secret helped to end Amerca's nuclear weapon monopoly. The depict the Rosenbergs as "hapless scapegoats of a propoganda war," painting them as victims of shoddy judicial maneuvers and FBI intimidation tactics. ( )

Professor Harvey Klehr has chosen to discuss Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton’s The Rosenberg File, on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Communism in America, saying that:



"...What the authors do with this book is to provide the first thorough, scholarly and objective examination of the case. They really produced a marvellous book which demonstrated that Julius Rosenberg in fact was guilty and that he had run a very large and effective espionage operation for the Soviets...."
The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/harvey-klehr ( )