| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

R. Bruce Craig. Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2004. Pp. x, 436. $34.95.
Harry Dexter White, assistant secretary of the Treasury, key figure in the Bretton Woods Conference, and first American director on the board of the International Monetary Fund, was either a patriot hounded to his death for his progressive politics by the reckless red-hunters who ran amuck during the decade after World War II or a traitor who passed government documents and information on American policy to Soviet espionage agents.	1
Or could he have been both?	2
In this meticulously researched, exhaustively documented study, R. Bruce Craig argues that White was simultaneously "one of the most notorious spies in American history" and yet, by White's own lights, an idealist whose covert activities were in the best interests of the United States by fostering a partnership for peace with the Soviet Union. That reconciliation of opposites will produce in some a warm, fuzzy feeling of solidarity with all fellow progressives, while others will probably shout out a rude eight-letter barnyard synonym for "balderdash."	3
Craig painstakingly gathered all known documents on the White case, both in this country and the Soviet Union, and successfully sued the government for White's grand jury records, a lawsuit that established a precedent (for good or ill) for unsealing other grand jury records of historical value. Craig also interviewed American and Soviet intelligence and government officials, as well as everyone else with a first-hand knowledge of the case (who was willing to talk). It is unlikely that any material on the case here or abroad has escaped his scrutiny.	. . .

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