The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts Pop Culture Art “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London)

“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence

as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend

''THE BLUE BOOK OF SOCIAL USAGE'' by Emily Post (American writer) reflects changing customs (“The Vanishing Chaperon and Other New Conventions”)

In this meticulously documented volume

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts Pop Culture Art “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London)Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as skilled as Anderson. The New York Times Book Review A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clearto somethat the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around