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Books : Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth BentleyIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $40.00 Amazon.com's Price: $32.58 You Save: $7.42 (19%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 327.1247073092 EAN: 9780807827390 ISBN: 0807827398 Label: The University of North Carolina Press Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 07, 2002 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Release Date: September 11, 2002 Studio: The University of North Carolina Press Sales Rank: 872704 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A biography of Elizabeth Bentley--New England schoolteacher, Soviet spy turned informant for the FBI, and key figure in the second Red Scare. Her decision to betray her friends and colleagues to the FBI effectively ended Soviet espionage in this country for many years. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The book to read Before Whittaker Chamber'sOnce the depression struck many elitist students (such as Miss Bentley at Vassar) seemed to begin to feel guilty of their privileged position in society. For those who had not religious grounding this opened up the possibility for other faiths to explain the crisis of history that they perceived themselves to be living through. Paul Johnson, in his book "The Quest for God" makes the point that people long for a faith to believe in and when conventional religion fails to satisfy they seek a substitute. ... Read More Rating:  - Loneliness in the Spotlight--America's "Red Blond Spy Queen"Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley By Kathryn S. Olmsted University of North Carolina Press, 2002 Reviewed by Kenneth R. Kahn "Either the government attacks you or they put you on the payroll" Chris Warnock The long trail of bread crumbs leading to American communists acting as Soviet agents inside the U.S. government and the beginnings of the red scare in the 1950s leads to one woman--Elizabeth Bentley. Long before the revelations of the ... Read More Rating: - History with intrique intactI was amazed that this book would be such a delight to read. Initially, the historical research is well narrated, maintaining the suspense, danger, and the confusion behind the real life espionage of Elizabeth Bentley. Kathryn Olmsted displays an enjoyable interest in the vocabulary of the time, and is not shy to weave a moral into the story, as lasciviousness trumps cleverness. This book is a great resource on the fascinating history of the puzzle called the "Red Scare". As the Russians open their archives, ... Read More Rating:  - Bentley book based on shaky sources.This is a well written and informative book on Elizabeth Bentley and the ex-communist witnesses of the Red Scare period of the 1940s (and 1950s). Based on a rather narrow base of primary sources, while Olmsted appears to believe most of Bentley's fingering of communists, spies or otherwise, there is much still problematic in her story. She does not make the case that the "spies" posed any real threat to the security and stability of the country in the 1930s or during World War II, although some certainly existed ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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