The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies / Jason Fagone.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780062430489
- ISBN: 0062430483
- Physical Description: xvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dey Street Books, 2017.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980. Cryptographers > United States > Biography. Cryptography > United States > History. |
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Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | 652 FAG (Text) | 37884102838988 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | FRI (Text) | 33042004488923 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Harrisonville | B FRI 2017 (Text) | 0002205029826 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Crawford County Library-Bourbon | 652.8092 FAG (Text) | 33431000540144 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
De Soto Public Library | 652.8 Fag (Text) | 33858000112070 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas County Public Library | B FRIEDMAN (Text) | 35633000317567 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Heartland Regional Library - Iberia | B SMI (Text) | 35555001839895 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | B FRIEDMAN (Text) | 30061010145445 | Biography | Checked out | 05/11/2024 |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | 652.8092 Fagone (Text) | 3803535492 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Livingston County Library - Main Library | BIO FRIEDMAN (Text) | 2601862173 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |