Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era by Lauren Kessler

Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era

Lauren Kessler

400 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 hero...

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