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Kati Marton, True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 289 pp. $27.00. ISBN: 978-1476763767

Author: Paul Hollander

Published in: Society | Issue 2/2018

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Few Americans, even those familiar with post World War II Eastern European history and the names of notorious Soviet spies, have heard of Noel Field, whose life and political career are the subject of this book. Such lack of familiarity is all the more surprising since “his friend and… fellow mole Alger Hiss is well known” as Stephen Koch pointed out. ¹. …

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Stephen Koch: Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West, New York 1994, 90.

Marton reviewed, 196.

Ibid., 1.

Ibid., 228–229.

Eric Hoffer: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, New York, 1951, pp. 75–76, 80–81.

Ibid., 75.

Marton cited 156.

Ibid., 30, 53–54.

Ibid., 41.

Ibid., 10, 34.

Eric Hobsbawm: Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, London, 2002, pp.73–74.

Marton cited 2, 62, 26.

Ibid., 167.

Noel Field: “Hitching Our Wagon to a Star,” Mainstream, January 1961, 9.

Marton, 218.

Field cited 14.

Ibid., 10.

Ibid., 12.

Ibid., 15, 16.

Marton, 139.

Ibid., 182–83, 199–200.

Field 4, 14.

Quoted in Marton, 162.

Field, 11. [my emphasis]

Marton, 199.

Field, 8, 12. My emphasis in the quote.

Ibid., 7, 9.

Ibid., 13, 16.

Hoffer cited, Preface, no pagination.

See Flora Lewis: Red Pawn: The Story of Noel Field, New York 1965; Koch cited, esp. Ch.6; and Maria Schmidt: Battle of Wits: Ideologies and Secret Agents in the twentieth Century, Budapest, 2007.

Marton 153–154.

Title: Kati Marton, True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 289 pp. $27.00. ISBN: 978-1476763767
Author: Paul Hollander
Publication date: 15-02-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0240-3

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