Clever Girl
Subtitle: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 5, 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780060185190
Subjects: Biography: general; Espionage & secret services; United States - General; Criminals & Outlaws; Communism; Women In The U.S; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Historical - General; Women; History / United States / General; Women communists; Bentley, Elizabeth; Biography; Intelligence service; Soviet Union
First sentence: IN THE ROLLING hills of western Connecticut, at the foot of the Berkshires, where the Housatonic River cuts a wide swath south to the Long Island Sound, sits the self-possessed, quintessentially New England town of New Milford.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Prologue; title: Part one : The romance.; title: Connecticut Yankee; title: Sad sack; title: Awakenings; title: Circle of friends; title: A steeled Bolshevik; title: Yasha; title: Tradecraft; title: Konspiratsia; title: Clever girl; title: Russian roulette; title: Closing in; title: Part two : The reality.; title: In from the cold; title: Hoover's turn; title: Red spy queen; title: The lady appears; title: Un-American activities; title: She said, he said; title: The spotlight; title: My life as a spy; title: Part three : The ruin.; title: The center cannot hold; title: Back in the act; title: Under attack; title: An unsettled woman; title: The wayward girl comes home; title: Epilogue