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Nathan Hale : The Life And Death Of America’s First Spy

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M. William Phelps
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Book, 1st ed, Thomas Dunne Books, 2008
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William Phelps charts the life of this famed patriot and Connecticut?s state hero, following Hale?s rural childhood, his education at Yale, and his work as a schoolteacher. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hale, Nathan, · 1755-1776 · Death and burial · Spies · United States · Biography · Soldiers · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Secret service · Phelps, M. William
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(LOWER LEVEL) E280.H2 P38 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E280.H2 P38 2008	AVAILABLE

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Chains : Seeds Of America

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Laurie Halse Anderson
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Book, 1st ed, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008
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Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Slavery · Juvenile fiction · African Americans · Spies · Fiction · New York (N.Y.) · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Juvenile fiction · United States · Anderson, Laurie Halse
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 An5474c AVAILABLE

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Hoffman’s Hunger

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Leon de Winter ; translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans
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Book, Toby, 2007
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Felix Hoffman’s hunger is both physical and emotional. he has not had one decent night’s sleep since the death of his daughter over twenty years ago, and his constant physical hunger reflects his emotional hunger for truth and understanding. Hoffman’s past and his present predicament are inextricably bound up with the tormented history of Europe over the fifty years since the Second World War. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Insomnia · Fiction · Eating disorders · Psychological aspects · Holocaust survivors · Ambassadors · Netherlands · Cold War · Spies · Czech Republic · Prague · Winter, Léon de, 1954-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PT5881.33.I55 H613 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PT5881.33.I55 H613 2007	AVAILABLE

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Patience Wright : America’s First Sculptor, And Revolutionary Spy

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Pegi Deitz Shea ; illustrated by Bethanne Andersen
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Book, 1st ed, Henry Holt, 2007
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Born in 1725 in the American colonies, Patience Wright discovered her talent for art at an early age. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wright, Patience Lovell · Juvenile literature · Sculptors · United States · Biography · Spies · Shea, Pegi Deitz · Andersen, Bethanne, 1954-
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 W951s 2007 AVAILABLE

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Perfect Spy : The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter And Vietnamese Communist Agent

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Larry Berman
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Book, 1st Smithsonian Books ed, Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007
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During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA’s William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale?not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Pham, Xuân An, · 1927-2006 · Vietnam War, 1961-1975 · Secret service · Vietnam (Democratic Republic) · Espionage, North Vietnamese · Vietnam (Republic) · Spies · Vietnam (Democratic Republic) · Biography · Journalists · Berman, Larry, 1951-
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(LOWER LEVEL) DS559.8.M44 B47 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DS559.8.M44 B47 2007	AVAILABLE

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How The Cold War Began : The Igor Gouzenko Affair And The Hunt For Soviet Spies

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Amy Knight
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Book, 1st Carroll & Graf ed, Carroll & Graf, 2006
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On September 5, 1945, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, reporting to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allegations of extensive Soviet espionage in North America, providing stolen documents detailing Soviet intelligence matters to back his claims. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Gouzenko, Igor, · 1919-1982 · Espionage, Soviet · Canada · History · 20th century · Cold War · Spies · United States · Defectors · Soviet Union · Biography · Knight, Amy W., 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F1034.3.G68 K55 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F1034.3.G68 K55 2006	AVAILABLE

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Early Cold War Spies : The Espionage Trials That Shaped American Politics

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John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Spies · Soviet Union · History · 20th century · Espionage, Soviet · Trials (Espionage) · United States · Communism · Anti-communist movements · 20th century · Politics and government · 1945-1953 · Haynes, John Earl · Klehr, Harvey
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(UPPER LEVEL) UB271.R9 H388 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	UB271.R9 H388 2006	AVAILABLE

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River Secrets

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Shannon Hale
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Book, 1st U.S. ed, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2006
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Razo is sure it’s out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission–escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern’s great enemy. But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country, Razo discovers the first dead body. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Diplomacy · Juvenile fiction · Spies · Self-esteem · Nature · Effect of human beings on · Fiction · Fairy tales · Hale, Shannon
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 H164r AVAILABLE

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Ethics Of Spying : A Reader For The Intelligence Professional

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edited by Jan Goldman
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Book, Scarecrow Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
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This is the first book to offer the best essays, articles, and speeches on ethics and intelligence that demonstrate the complex moral dilemmas in intelligence collection, analysis, and operations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Espionage · Moral and ethical aspects · Espionage, American · Intelligence service · United States · Moral and ethical aspects · Military interrogation · Spies · Professional ethics · Political ethics · Goldman, Jan
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(LOWER LEVEL) JF1525.I6 E895 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	JF1525.I6 E895 2006	AVAILABLE

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Odyssey Of An Eavesdropper : My Life In Electronic Countermeasures And My Battle Against The FBI

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Martin L. Kaiser III with Robert S. Stokes
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Book, 1st Carroll & Graf ed, Carroll & Graf, 2005
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However, as a result of his testimony before the National Wiretap Commission in 1975, the FBI began a vendetta against Kaiser, nearly driving his business into bankruptcy and resulting in his eventual indictment on charge of illegal wiretapping, conspiracy and transporting an illegal eavesdropping device across state lines. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kaiser, Martin L · Spies · United States · Biography · Electronic surveillance · Kaiser, Martin L · Stokes, Robert S
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(LOWER LEVEL) E839.8 .K35 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E839.8 .K35 2005	AVAILABLE

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Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

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Park Honan
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Christopher Marlowe’s life was the most spectacular of any English dramatist. The book features new information on Marlowe’s six-and-a-half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his shocking blasphemy and his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his alleged atheism. In addition, there are new details on spies and business agents that Marlowe knew, a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Marlowe, Christopher, · 1564-1593 · Dramatists, English · Early modern, 1500-1700 · Biography · Espionage, British · History · 16th century · Spies · Great Britain · Honan, Park
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR2673 .H57 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR2673 .H57 2005	AVAILABLE

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Engineering Communism : How Two Americans Spied For Stalin And Founded The Soviet Silicon Valley

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Steven T. Usdin
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Book, Yale University Press, 2005
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Engineering Communism is the fascinating story of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, dedicated Communists and members of the Rosenberg spy ring, who stole information from the United States during World War II that proved crucial to building the first advanced weapons systems in the USSR. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Berg, Iosef Veniaminovich, · 1916-1998 · Staros, Filipp Georgievich, · 1918-1979 · Spies · United States · Biography · Electric engineers · Soviet Union · Communists · Espionage, Soviet · History · 20th century · Technology transfer · Zelenograd (Russia) · Usdin, Steven T., 1961-
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(UPPER LEVEL) UB271.S652 B47 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	UB271.S652 B47 2005	AVAILABLE

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The Wedding : An Encounter With Jan Van Eyck

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Elizabeth M. Rees
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Book, Watson-Guptill, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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At her first visit to the Duke?s court, young Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by the famous Flemish painter Jan van Eyck. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Eyck, Jan van, · 1390-1440 · Juvenile fiction · Arranged marriage · Fathers and daughters · Courts and courtiers · Spies · Artists · Europe · History · 15th century · Rees, Elizabeth M
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Deceiving The Deceivers : Kim Philby, Donald Maclean And Guy Burgess

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S.J. Hamrick
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Book, Yale University Press, 2004
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- Contributor biographical information
- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
Description
Among the more sensational espionage cases of the Cold War were those of Moscow?s three British spies?Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess. Basing his argument primarily on the Venona archive of broken Soviet codes released in 1995?1996 as well as on complementary Moscow and London sources, Hamrick refutes the myth of MI5?s identification of Maclean as a Soviet agent in the spring of 1951. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Philby, Kim, · 1912- · Maclean, Donald, · 1913- · Burgess, Guy, · 1911-1963 · Espionage, Soviet · Great Britain · Spies · Soviet Union · Biography · Hamrick, S.J
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(UPPER LEVEL) UB271.R92 P477 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	UB271.R92 P477 2004	AVAILABLE

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Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

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Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer ; produced by Loew’s Incorporated ; screen play by Leon Gordon, Helen Deutsch and Richard Schayer ; produced by Leon Gordon ; directed by Victor Saville
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Video, Warner Home Video, 2003
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Spies · Great Britain · Drama · LAMSON LIBRARY DVD · Gordon, Leon, 1884-1960 · Deutsch, Helen · Schayer, Richard E. 1882-1956 · Saville, Victor, 1897- · Skall, W. V. 1898-1976 · Boemler, George · Previn, André, 1929- · Flynn, Errol, 1909-1959 · Stockwell, Dean, 1938- · Lukas, Paul, 1894-1971 · Douglas, Robert, 1909- · Gomez, Thomas, 1905-1971 · Kellaway, Cecil, 1891-1973 · Moss, Arnold, 1910- · Owen, Reginald, 1887-1972 · Luez, Laurette, 1919-1999 · Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · Loew’s Incorporated · Warner Home Video (Firm)
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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) PR4854 .K44 2003 AVAILABLE

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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN)	PR4854 .K44 2003	AVAILABLE

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