TY - JOUR
AU - Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
AB - Book Reviews 1041 to a business model. Faculty members were to 2004. xiv, 370 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1351- X.) teach and leave running the school to Stout and his deans. When Stout took over, the post- war wave of G.I. Bill of Rights students had Katherine A. S. Sibley’s book is an account of graduated and enrollment was falling. Arguing Soviet espionage in America and of U.S. re- sponses to it. She thinks that President Frank- that democracy required that all high school lin D. Roosevelt showed “naïveté about the graduates should have a chance to do univer- scope of Soviet intentions” (p. 8). Against the sity work and needing to boost numbers, Stout background of sensational German spy cases secured a relaxation of previously tightened at the start of World War II, the Federal Bu- admissions standards. This precipitated a fac- reau of Investigation (FBI) proceeded relatively ulty revolt led by the biology department chair “quietly” with its investigation of espionage and campus American Association of Univer- conducted under cover of the Soviets’ Am- sity Professors (AAUP) head Frank Richardson. torg trading corporation (p. 60). She refers to He circulated among colleagues the historian the FBI’s “scattershot” approach 
TI - Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660090
DA - 2005-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/red-spies-in-america-stolen-secrets-and-the-dawn-of-the-cold-war-aws2Ge0iVN
SP - 1041
EP - 1042
VL - 92
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -