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04276aam a22006258i 4500 001 B9A51E7A70D211E6B79D7A86DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230913010647 008 160202s2016 nyu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2015041712 020 $a 1476763763 : HRD 020 $a 9781476763767 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a E743.5.F47 $b M37 2016 082 00 $a 327.12092 082 00 $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Marton, Kati. 245 14 $a The true believer : $b the secret life of Noel Field, Stalin's last American spy / $c Kati Marton. 250 $a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 263 $a 1609 264 1 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2016. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a "Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 2 $a "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades. How does an Ivy League-educated, US State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history, become a hardcore Stalinist? The 1930s, when Noel Field joined the secret underground of the International Communist Movement, were a time of national collapse: ten million Americans unemployed, rampant racism, retreat from the world just as fascism was gaining ground, and Washington--pre FDR--parched of fresh ideas.Communism promised the righting of social and political wrongs and many in Field's generation were seduced by its siren song. Few, however, went as far as Noel Field in betraying their own country. With a reporter's eye for detail, and a historian's graspof the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century, Kati Marton captures Field's riveting quest for a life of meaning that went horribly wrong. True Believer is supported by unprecedented access to Field family correspondence, Soviet Secret Police records, and reporting on key players from Alger Hiss, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and World War II spy master, 'Wild Bill' Donovan--to the most sinister of all: Josef Stalin. A story of another time, this is a tale relevant for all times"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Field, Noel Haviland, $d 1904-1970. 650 0 $a Spies $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Communists $z United States $v Biography. 600 10 $a Stalin, Joseph, $d 1878-1953 $x Friends and associates. 650 0 $a Espionage, Soviet $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Soviet Union. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1933-1945. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Marton, Kati. $t True believer $b First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. $d New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016 $z 9781476763781 $w (DLC) 2016006744 941 $a 15 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204084308.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110070209.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717032206.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006101035.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045143.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719043300.0 952 $l MBPE423 $d 20180717035100.0 952 $l MWPB943 $d 20180712042328.0 952 $l DXPB423 $d 20180710021911.0 952 $l VSPC034 $d 20171028010302.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20170801012121.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20170301011716.0 952 $l OGPC877 $d 20170301010932.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161103023759.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160915010115.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9A51E7A70D211E6B79D7A86DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search