Red Conspirator
j. peters and the american communist underground
$116.74
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2011
Summary
In this bold contribution to our understanding of the Communist underground in the United States, Thomas Sakmyster offers the first biography of controversial spymaster J. Peters, a shadowy figure in the American Communist party in the 1920s through the 1940s. Using Peters’s unpublished memoir as well as multilingual sources from the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, Sakmyster traces Peters’s activities from his arrival in the United States to the dawn of the C…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252035982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252035984 |
| Author: | Thomas Sakmyster |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“There has long been a need for a biography of J. Peters. Thomas Sakmyster has mined all requisite American and Hungarian/Russian Federation archives, creating a thoroughly researched and extremely well written portrait that puts not just a face but an entire wardrobe on the mysterious J. Peters.” R. Bruce Craig, author of Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case
About The Author
Thomas Sakmyster
Thomas Sakmyster is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Hungary, the Great Powers, and the Danubian Crisis, 1936–1939 and Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: MiklÓs Horthy, 1918–1944.
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