Counterfeit Hero

Author : Art Ronnie
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterfeit Hero written by Art Ronnie and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends called Duquesne "the best company in the world." Prison officials considered him "one of the most dangerous criminals in the United States." FBI agents hot on his trail found him "likable." At one time or another the South Africa-born soldier of fortune was a prisoner of war, explorer, African hunting adviser to Teddy Roosevelt, inventor, reporter, novelist, publicist for Joseph P. Kennedy's movie company, stockbroker, womanizer, spy, murderer, and certified lunatic. Thanks to the classic 1945 movie The House on 92nd Street, he is best remembered as the central figure in a ring of thirty-three Nazi spies arrested in New York City in 1941. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called their arrest "the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history," and their trial was one of the nation's longest and most celebrated. For Duquesne, it was the end of a forty-year adventure.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birmingham Counterfeit; Or, Invisible Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Stanley
Publisher : Paraview, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780976498612
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Be a Hero! the Quest for Authentic Leadership written by Matthew Stanley and published by Paraview, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elliott Rabin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827618344
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biblical Hero written by Elliott Rabin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Bible in an original way--comparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literature--Elliott Rabin addresses a core biblical question: What is the Bible telling us about what it means to be a hero? Focusing on the lives of six major biblical characters--Moses, Samson, David, Esther, Abraham, and Jacob--Rabin examines their resemblance to hero types found in (and perhaps drawn from) other literatures and analyzes why the Bible depicts its heroes less gloriously than do the texts of other cultures: * Moses founds the nation of Israel--and is short-tempered and weak-armed. * Samson, arrogant and unhinged, can kill a thousand enemies with his bare hands. * David establishes a centralized, unified, triumphal government--through pretense and self-deception. * Esther saves her people but marries a murderous, misogynist king. * Abraham's relationships are wracked with tension. * Jacob fathers twelve tribes--and wins his inheritance through deceit. In the end, is God the real hero? Or is God too removed from human constraints to even be called a "hero"? Ultimately, Rabin excavates how the Bible's unique perspective on heroism can address our own deep-seated need for human-scale heroes.

Author : Kristie Macrakis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300188250
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners, Lovers, & Spies written by Kristie Macrakis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “engrossing study” of invisible ink reveals 2,000 years of scoundrels, heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages (Kirkus). In Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies, Kristie Macrakis uncovers the secret history of invisible ink and the ingenious way everything from lemon juice to Gall-nut extract and even certain bodily fluids have been used to conceal and reveal covert communications. From Ancient Rome to the Cold War, spies have been imprisoned or murdered, adultery unmasked, and battles lost because of faulty or intercepted secret messages. Yet, successfully hidden writing has helped save lives, win battles, and ensure privacy—at times changing the course of history. Macrakis combines a storyteller’s sense of drama with a historian’s respect for evidence in this page-turning history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. From Ovid’s advice to use milk for illicit love notes, to John Gerard's dramatic escape from the Tower of London aided by orange juice ink messages, to al-Qaeda’s hidden instructions in pornographic movies, this book charts the evolution of secret messages and their impact on history. An appendix includes kitchen chemistry recipes for readers to try out at home.

Author : Masood Zangeneh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387721738
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Pursuit of Winning written by Masood Zangeneh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As gambling become ever more ubiquitous, more people are risking their finances, family lives, and health in their desire to be the winner that takes it all. This book brings together an international panel of experts to present a wide variety of perspectives on problem gambling, and test popular addiction and disease models in the field. Early chapters examine the psychology of gambling, before moving on to the pastime’s associated irrational ideas. The seven chapters in the second half are devoted to evidence-based interventions from a variety of clinical orientations. Case examples, Q&A sections, and a glossary add extra readability to the coverage.

Author : Peter Duffy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451667957
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Agent written by Peter Duffy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal figure in the arrests of 33 enemy agents for the Nazis.

Author : Arthur Beatty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Wordsworth written by Arthur Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond J. Batvinis
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700616535
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence written by Raymond J. Batvinis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world prepared for war in the 1930s, the United States discovered that it faced the real threat of foreign spies stealing military and industrial secrets-and that it had no established means to combat them. Into that breach stepped J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Although the FBI's expanded role in World War II has been well documented, few have examined the crucial period before Pearl Harbor when the Bureau's powers secretly expanded to face the developing international emergency. Former FBI agent Raymond Batvinis now tells how the Bureau grew from a small law enforcement unit into America's first organized counterespionage and counterintelligence service. Batvinis examines the FBI's emerging new roles during the two decades leading up to America's entry into World War II to show how it cooperated and competed with other federal agencies. He takes readers behind the scenes, as the State Department and Hoover fought fiercely over the control of counterintelligence, and tells how the agency combined its crime-fighting expertise with its new wiretapping authority to spy on foreign agents. Based on newly declassified documents and interviews with former agents, Batvinis's account reconstructs and greatly expands our understanding of the FBI's achievements and failures during this period. Among these were the Bureau's mishandling of the 1938 Rumrich/Griebl spy case, which Hoover slyly used to broaden his agency's powers; its cracking of the Duquesne Espionage Case in 1941, which enabled Hoover to boost public and congressional support to new heights; and its failure to understand the value of Soviet agent Walter Krivitsky, which slowed Bureau efforts to combat Soviet espionage in America. In addition, Batvinis offers a new view of the relationship between the FBI and the military, cites the crucial contributions of British intelligence to the FBI's counterintelligence education, and reveals the agency's ultra-secret role in mining financial records for the Treasury Department. He also reviews the early days of the top-secret Special Intelligence Service, which quietly dispatched FBI agents posing as businessmen to South America to spy on their governments. With an insider's knowledge and a storyteller's skill, Batvinis provides a page-turning history narrative that greatly revises our views of the FBI-and also resonates powerfully with our own post-9/11 world.

Author : Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647120055
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazi Spy Ring in America written by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1930s, just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality, Nazi Germany launched a program of espionage against the unwary nation. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s fascinating history provides the first full account of Nazi spies in 1930s America and how they were exposed in a high-profile FBI case that became a national sensation.