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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

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Notes

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

  2. Marton reviewed, 196.

  3. Ibid., 1.

  4. Ibid., 228–229.

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

  6. Ibid., 75.

  7. Marton cited 156.

  8. Ibid., 30, 53–54.

  9. Ibid., 41.

  10. Ibid., 10, 34.

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

  12. Marton cited 2, 62, 26.

  13. Ibid., 167.

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

  15. Marton, 218.

  16. Field cited 14.

  17. Ibid., 10.

  18. Ibid., 12.

  19. Ibid., 15, 16.

  20. Marton, 139.

  21. Ibid., 182–83, 199–200.

  22. Field 4, 14.

  23. Quoted in Marton, 162.

  24. Field, 11. [my emphasis]

  25. Marton, 199.

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

  27. Ibid., 7, 9.

  28. Ibid., 13, 16.

  29. Hoffer cited, Preface, no pagination.

  30. 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.

  31. Marton 153–154.

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Hollander, P. Kati Marton, True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy. Soc 55, 209–213 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0240-3

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