Calomiris Angela - Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down
Here you can read online Calomiris Angela - Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: United States, year: 2017, publisher: Charlesbridge;Imagine, genre: Non-fiction. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down
- Author:
- Publisher:Charlesbridge;Imagine
- Genre:
- Year:2017
- City:United States
- Rating:5 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
When Calomiris testified for the prosecution at the 1949 Smith Act trial of the Partys National Board, her identity as an informant (but not as a lesbian) was revealed. Her testimony sent eleven party leaders to prison and decimated the ranks of the Communist Party in the US.
Undercover Girl is both a new chapter in Cold War history and an intimate look at the relationship between the FBI and one of its paid inform-ants. Ambitious and sometimes ruthless, Calomiris deed convention in her quest for celebrity.
Calomiris Angela: author's other books
Who wrote Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Lisa E. Davis vividly written biography of Angela Calomiris, the FBIs lesbian informant, is filled with gay surprises and bitter secrets. A splendid addition to the Red Scare history. Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, Volumes 1-3
An eye-opener of a story. Lisa E. Davis has uncovered a life that virtually no one will have encountered before. In doing so, she sheds bright, new, and startling light on key elements of mid-20th-century America: the anti-communist witch-hunts, the workings of the FBI, and the surprising role of a lesbian undercover informant in major events of those times. This is a major addition to our history, and its a page turner as well. John DEmilio, author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
Davis portrait of the ambitious photographer and not-very-closeted lesbian Angela Calomiris is a wonderful combination of careful scholarship and sheer fun to readan illuminating look at the psychology, history, and cultural milieu of one of the McCarthy Eras most notorious anti-communist informers. Marjorie Heins, author of Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge
This brilliant and eminently readable book is a testament to Lisa E. Davis scrupulous scholarship and her admirable dedication. If you thoughtas I didthat you knew it all already, prepare to have your mind blown. Daniel Allentuck, writer/director of the film Ordinary Miracles: The Photo Leagues New York
Lisa E. Davis has been doggedly tracking the life of FBI informant Angela Calomiris for years. Cold War scholars anxiously anticipate publication of her research on this undercover agent who sang on her friends in the Photo League and beyond, destroying lives in the process under a guise of patriotic duty. In my research of the League, I witnessed aged members weep over its demise; at the heart of its downfall was Calomiris, a spy whose accusations left a long list of casualties. Davis weaves together the messy, often secretive strands of feminist, gay, labor, and political histories into a coherent narrative, a cautionary tale for all ages. Lili Corbus, author of Politics and Photography in America: From the New Deal into the Cold War
Lisa Davis has unearthed and brought to light what may well have been the most important political trial of the 20th Century, digging it out of the hidden history of J. Edgar Hoovers hateful hysteria where it has been buried for more than half a century. But this is not a story about history. It is about today. In reading this storythe fascinating tale of Hoovers lesbian informerwe not only learn news we desperately need to knowespecially in todays Surveillance Societywe enjoy the learning. Fred Jerome, author of The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoovers Secret War Against the Worlds Most Famous Scientist
Copyright 2017 by Lisa E. Davis
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Charlesbridge and colophon are registered trademarks of Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.
An Imagine Book
Published by Charlesbridge
85 Main Street
Watertown, MA 02472
(617) 926-0329
www.imaginebooks.net
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davis, Lisa E., author.
Title: Undercover girl : the lesbian informant who helped the FBI bring down the Communist Party / Lisa E. Davis.
Description: Watertown : Imagine Book, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016029416 (print) | LCCN 2016045044 (ebook) | ISBN 9781623545222 (paperback) | ISBN 9781632892089 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632892096 (ebook pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Calomiris, Angela, 1916-1995. | Undercover operationsUnited States. | Photo LeagueHistory. | United StatesHistory20th century.
| BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies.
Classification: LCC HV7911.C355 D38 2017 (print) | LCC HV7911.C355 (ebook) | DDC 363.25/931 [B] dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029416
Ebook ISBN9781632892089
Production supervision by Brian G. Walker
Cover design concept by Linda Kosarin/The Art Department
v4.1
a
For Joan Nestle, author and historian
What the Communists had that nobody else had was national and international connections with a point of view. Theres nothing more powerful than a point of view.
Ellenore Hittelman, in Dorothy Healey Remembers
No one becomes an informer at the moment he informs; hes always been an informer, hes just been waiting for the opportunity.
Arthur Laurents, in Original Story By
This type of investigation would not have been possible without the Freedom of Information Act (1967). Angela Calomiriss extensive FBI file tells the long story of a relationship between the Bureau and one of its informants. Other FBI files expose surveillance of individuals, particularly American photographers, and of the New York Photo League (1936-1951), which was early on classified as subversive and denounced publicly at the 1949 Smith Act trial of the National Board of the American Communist Party. The complete transcript of that trial, generously made available to me by the National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, helps to define the painful transition from Franklin Roosevelts progressive New Deal and the US war on fascism to the reactionary 1950s. We live in the shadow of that policy shift, and must try to understand it in depth.
For assistance with FBI files and material relative to the 1949 Smith Act trial, I am indebted to Veronica A. Wilson, the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Fiona Dejardin of Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York; and Barbara J. Falk, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was also my good fortune to know curators of fine photography, like Catherine Evans of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, and pre-eminent scholars, like Lili Corbus, whose early work on photography and politics in America set the standard for this type of investigation. Survivors of the New York Photo League and their families have kept the memory of the League alive so that future generations can evaluate its importance. Sincere thanks to filmmakers Nina Rosenblum and Daniel Allentuck, to photography historian Naomi Rosenblum, keeper of the Rosenblum Archive Collection, and to Pamela Gilbert-Bugbee for their kindness and support of this project.
But the original source for information about Calomirisand a hiding place for secretsremains the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, New York, which provided Melva Wade and her partner Mary Johnston with a home for an entire file cabinet full of papers and photographs left to their care. Discovered after Calomiriss death, this wealth of material ensured the survival of unusual insights and secrets about the McCarthy era. My thanks to Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Teddy Minucci, Saskia Scheffer, and other volunteer staff for their unfailing support.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Similar books «Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down»
Look at similar books to Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book Undercover girl: J. Edgar Hoovers war against Communism and the informant who helped bring it down and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.