Author: Harry Clinton GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Pioneer Mothers of America: "The splendid women of '76"
Author: Harry Clinton GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Pioneer Mothers of America
Author: Harry Clinton GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Branch Library News
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Ladies' Home Companion
Author: The Spirit of '76
Author: Woman on the American Frontier
Author: William Worthington FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Author: Jason FagonePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062430505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
National Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.” —The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam and Eve" of the NSA, Elizebeth’s story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizebeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma—and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America’s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith’s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson’s bestsellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is page-turning popular history at its finest.
The American Messenger and Service Star
Author: Harper's Bazaar
Author: Go West, Young Women!
Author: Hilary HallettPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520274083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a “New Woman.” Their efforts transformed filmmaking from a marginal business to a cosmopolitan, glamorous, and bohemian one. By 1920, Los Angeles had become the only western city where women outnumbered men. In Go West, Young Women, Hilary A. Hallett explores these relatively unknown new western women and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. From Mary Pickford’s rise to become perhaps the most powerful woman of her age, to the racist moral panics of the post–World War I years that culminated in Hollywood’s first sex scandal, Hallett describes how the path through early Hollywood presaged the struggles over modern gender roles that animated the century to come.