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==Current Status==
 
==Current Status==
Radosh is currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in [[Washington, D.C.]],[http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=RadoshRon] and professor of history emeritus at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York [http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/History/]. His commentaries on the Rosenbergs and other topics have appeared in ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' and ''[[National Review]]'', and the blog [[Frontpagemag.com]]. His memoirs are entitled ''Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left.''
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Radosh is currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>[http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=RadoshRon Hudson Institute]</ref> and professor of history emeritus at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York <ref>[http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/History/ History Department]</ref>. His commentaries on the Rosenbergs and other topics have appeared in ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' and ''[[National Review]]'', and the blog [[FrontPage Magazine]]. His memoirs are entitled ''Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left.''
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
 
* Ronald Radosh and [[Murray Rothbard]] eds., ''A New History of Leviathan'', New York: [[E.P. Dutton]], 1972
 
* Ronald Radosh and [[Murray Rothbard]] eds., ''A New History of Leviathan'', New York: [[E.P. Dutton]], 1972
 
*''Prophets On The Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism'', 1975  
 
*''Prophets On The Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism'', 1975  
* Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, ''The Rosenberg File'', New Haven: [[Yale University Press]], 1993.  ISBN 0-300-07205-8
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* Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, ''The Rosenberg File'', New Haven: [[Yale University]] Press, 1993.  ISBN 0-300-07205-8
* [[Harvey Klehr]] and Ronald Radosh, ''The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism'', [[University of North Carolina Press]],1996.  ISBN 0-807-82245-0
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* [[Harvey Klehr]] and Ronald Radosh, ''The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism'', [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina Press]],1996.  ISBN 0-807-82245-0
 
*''Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party'', Free Press, 1996.  ISBN 0-684-82810-3
 
*''Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party'', Free Press, 1996.  ISBN 0-684-82810-3
 
*''Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left'', Encounter Books 2001. ISBN 1-893554-05-8
 
*''Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left'', Encounter Books 2001. ISBN 1-893554-05-8
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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BRAD.HTM Brief biography]
 
*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BRAD.HTM Brief biography]
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=11 FrontpageMag.com Profile and Author Archive]
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*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=11 Profile and Author Archive], [[FrontPage Magazine]]
 
*[http://www.slate.com/id/3679/ McCarthyism] Debate between [[Ellen Schrecker]] and Ronald Radosh.
 
*[http://www.slate.com/id/3679/ McCarthyism] Debate between [[Ellen Schrecker]] and Ronald Radosh.
 
*[http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg12.html The ‘Red Diaper Babies’] - a review of ''Commies: A Journey...'' by [[Joseph R. Stromberg]]
 
*[http://www.lewrockwell.com/stromberg/stromberg12.html The ‘Red Diaper Babies’] - a review of ''Commies: A Journey...'' by [[Joseph R. Stromberg]]
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*[http://hnn.us/articles/10493.html Why Conservatives Are So Upset with Thomas Woods's Politically Incorrect History Book]
 
*[http://hnn.us/articles/10493.html Why Conservatives Are So Upset with Thomas Woods's Politically Incorrect History Book]
 
*[http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0002/reviews/radosh.html Books in Review. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]
 
*[http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0002/reviews/radosh.html Books in Review. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]
 
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Ronald Radosh (b. 1937, New York City) is an American historian specializing in Cold War espionage. His critics have accused him of exaggerating the significance of Soviet espionage in the United States, while he maintains that they are naive, doctrinaire Leftists, who haven't reconciled themselves to the crimes committed on behalf of Communism, and whose enmity stems from that fundamental flaw.

Early Life

Radosh was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1937. His parents, Reuben and Ida Radosh, were Jewish immigrants from the former Russian Empire and life long members of the Communist Party USA. A self-described Red Diaper Baby, he attended the Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School.

Academic Career

During the 1950s, Radosh attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he engaged in jam sessions with a young Bob Dylan. During the Khurshchev thaw, he broke with the Soviet-backed Party of his parents' generation and became a founding father of the New Left. A former participant in campus radicalism during the 1960s, he recalls in his memoirs that many otherwise Left-Wing professors opposed any effort to politicize the universities, arguing in favor of keeping them neutral as places of learning and inquiry.

The Rosenberg File

Although he has admitted to having had doubts about aspects of the movement for a long time, his decision to break with the left was sparked by his research into Rosenberg case. In 1978, Professor Radosh began conducting research into FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Although he had originally intended to prove the innocence of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel, Professor Radosh was eventually convinced of their mutual guilt.

After the publication of his research and conclusions in 1979, Professor Radosh was ostracized by his former comrades and attacked in print. He recalls how a longtime friend told him, "The facts are irrelevant. We need the Rosenbergs as heroes."[1]

Current Status

Radosh is currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.,[2] and professor of history emeritus at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York [3]. His commentaries on the Rosenbergs and other topics have appeared in The New Republic, The Weekly Standard and National Review, and the blog FrontPage Magazine. His memoirs are entitled Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left.

Bibliography

External links

Essays and Reviews

References

  1. Ronald Radosh, "Commies," page 157.
  2. Hudson Institute
  3. History Department