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Publication

1990 - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

92,250 words, Guess

Page Count

369 pages

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  • Library of Congress Control Number89023384

Classifications

  • DDC364.1/523/094956
  • LCCHV6535.G83 T46 1990

Description

On May 16, 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk was found floating in Greece's Salonika Bay, where he had been stationed to report on a bloody civil war. The murder was allegedly solved, but Kati Marton has conctructed a vivid, convincing account of who really ordered the assasination of George Polk - and the motive behind it. This is the story of a peculiarly American hero whose blunt honesty and idealism proved insufficient aids in traversing the trecherous grounds of Cold War politics.

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Includes material on Walter Lippman and Wiliiam "Wild Bill" Donovan.

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