Category - Non Fiction / Suspense & Thrillers
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 15 days ago
Views - 3
Ships From - Illinois
Est. Publication Date - Aug 2023
Seller Description
"Marguerite Harrison broke all the rules for a young woman in the early twentieth century. Biographer Janet Wallach has brilliantly rediscovered this fabulous life and spins a colorful tale of a smart, beautiful young woman who was too bored to stay at home. Instead, she runs off to revolutionary Russia, interviews Leon Trotsky in Moscow, befriends John Reed, and considers Emma Goldman "a sympathetic soul." Twice imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, Harrison manages to survive for more wild adventures in the Middle East, the Far East, and Mongolia. Wallach's heroine is a feisty feminist but her espionage, working under the cover of a journalist, underscores the lost art of human intelligence collection in the modern spy business." —KAI BIRD, Pulizer Prize winning biographer and director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography From the author of the classic biography Desert Queen comes the astonishing true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the turbulent period between the world wars.
Additional Information
Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
ISBN: 9780385545082
Publisher Description
The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Ma...
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