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Clever Girl Elizabeth Bentley The Spy Who Ushered In The Mccarthy Era Lauren Kessler

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Clever Girl Elizabeth Bentley The Spy Who Ushered In The Mccarthy Era Lauren Kessler instant download after payment.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

File Extension: PDF

File size: 16.38 MB

Pages: 400

Author: Lauren Kessler

ISBN: 9780060959739, 0060959738

Language: English

Year: 2004

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Clever Girl Elizabeth Bentley The Spy Who Ushered In The Mccarthy Era Lauren Kessler by Lauren Kessler 9780060959739, 0060959738 instant download after payment.

Communists vilified
her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist.
Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a
traitor, a stooge, a mercenary and a grandstander. To others she was a
true American heroine—fearless, principled, bold and resolute.
Congressional committees loved her. The FBI hailed her as an avenging
angel. The Catholics embraced her. But the fact is, more than half a
century after she captured the headlines as the "Red Spy Queen,"
Elizabeth Bentley remains a mystery.
New England-born,
conservatively raised, and Vassar-educated, Bentley was groomed for a
quiet life, a small life, which she explored briefly in the 1920s as a
teacher, instructing well-heeled young women on the beauty of Romance
languages at an east coast boarding school. But in her mid-twenties, she
rejected both past and future and set herself on an entirely new
course. In the 1930s she embraced communism and fell in love with an
undercover KGB agent who initiated her into the world of espionage. By
the time America plunged into WWII, Elizabeth Bentley was directing the
operations of the two largest spy rings in America. Eventually, she had
eighty people in her secret apparatus, half of them employees of the
federal government. Her sources were everywhere: in the departments of
Treasury and Commerce, in New Deal agencies, in the top-secret OSS (the
precursor to the CIA), on Congressional committees, even in the Oval
Office.