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True believer : Stalin's last American spy / Kati Marton.

Summary:

This book transports the reader to a turbulent era in which fascism and Communism are on the rise and America retreats from the world. Noel Field joined the secret underground of the international Communist movement during a time of national collapse, when Communism promised the righting of all social and political wrongs. Many in Field's generation were seduced by its siren song, but none paid a higher price for his betrayal of his country and his family than Field. With a reporter's eye and a historian's grasp of the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton captures Field's futile and tragic quest for a life of meaning, which caused his and his family's near destruction. Marton gained access to previously unavailable Soviet secret police records, reporting on figures from Alger Hiss, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and "Wild Bill" Donovan to Josef Stalin. She also had access to Field family correspondence, which offers an intimate portrait of the human drama. The story of an idealistic young American captured by a poisonous belief and manipulated by demagogues, True Believer is a book for our troubled time.--From dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781476763767
ISBN: 1476763763
ISBN: 9781476763774
ISBN: 1476763771
Physical Description: x, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A Swiss childhood -- America -- The making of a radical -- The convert -- Spy games -- Spies in flight -- Desperate comrades -- Spain -- War -- Marseille -- The spy in wartime -- Child of the century -- Cold peace -- Man without a country--1948 -- The end of the line -- Bloodlust again -- Kidnapped -- Two more Fields disappear -- Erica falls in the net -- The prisons open -- Still not free -- The age of suspicion -- Twilight years -- Prague -- Home at last -- The stranger.