this book came out at the end of the cold war and a lot of the debate about julius rosenberg. there was always this liberal debate about was rosenberg scapegoated because he was jewish or liberal? this book ended a lot of that debate. then you have lower levels, harry gold. gold was a chemist by trade. he was somebody that made a lot of sense to run atomic spies. he was born of russian jewish immigrants. interestingly enough, he was a very successful chemist, he lost his job in the great depression. this was something that helped radicalize them. any time i talk to people who are 40 and below, they don't really understand how people could turn against their country and become a communist. communism was a dying institution that obviously does not work. for those who grew up in the 1930's and saw the great depression and the idea of bread lines and the fact that people were going through such hardship and looked over at the propaganda coming out of the soviet union were everybody had a job and a good life, where there were no class a stations. -- class distinctions. this is what

this ended the debate about julius rosenberg, but we will in amore about that second. there was also a left liberal debate was rosenberg scapegoated because he was jewish or because or because he was a liberal? this bookended a lot of that debate -- this book ended a lot of that debate. lower levels. in some cases there were no religious or racial distinctions. this is a pipe dream. nonsense. outthis is what was coming of the soviet union. ideologically it's hard to tolain and not hard empathize with people who said this is the real wave of the future. harry gold was one of these guys. when he lost his job in the great depression this is one of that led toeps radicalization. for onecourier later on of the most important atomic spy and he worked with rosenberg's ring. steve nelson is one of the most unknown of the atomic spy ring leaders. recruiter for a lot of the university-based professors professors professors who were giving information to the soviet union. naturalized citizen. he wasn't a u.s. citizen to begin with. he spent time in spain in the spanish and the war