Volume 34, Number 18 · November 19, 1987
The Conscientious Spy
By Stephen Toulmin
Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy
by Robert Chadwell Williams
Harvard University Press, 267 pp., $25.00
Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb
by Norman Moss
Grafton Books (London), 216 pp., £12.95
In America these days, idealism is out of fashion, even in bad taste. Men of principle make us uncomfortable. Their enthusiasm is suspect; their refusal to compromise looks at worst unscrupulous, at best naive. Ours is less a scoundrel time, as Lillian Hellman called the McCarthy years, than a time for freebooters, when the people who win sneaking public sympathy are a pirate apprentice like Oliver North and a devious financier like John Z. DeLorean.
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