Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 141658613X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Absorbing, Thrilling True Story Played on a Worldwide Stage Stephanie De Pue "Enemies of the People" is the seventh book by Kati Marton, distinguished, award-winning former news correspondent for the ABC, and NPR, networks. She has previously penned New York Times best sellers Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History; and The Great Escape: . Lillian Altman said This is a wonderful book and Kati Marton is a good writer. This is a wonderful book and Kati Marton is a good writer. I have read all of the books she has written, and highly recommend her.. C Fitz said Four Stars. This was a gift
In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an award-winning journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her parents, as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends, colleagues, and even their children’s babysitter. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents and love.
Kati Marton is the author of True Believer: Stalin's American Spy; Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World; Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History; Wallenberg
She tells it in straightforward, lucid prose carefully reported, almost clinical account of what it is like to live in a totalitarian state and how hard it is to escape from it. A book that is honest, frank, and true recalls the best works of Koestler and Orwell, but contained within a family story, which remains for all its horrors, touching, life-loving, even, in its own unsentimental way, inspirational.” --Michael Korda, The Daily Beast. A family story that reads like a novel. It’s a terrific story, and Marton tells it very well.” --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post“Wonderful. But would that it were fiction. An honestly inspiring story.”--Alan Furst, The New York Times Book Review“Ma