BOOKER PRIZE ENTRY FOR 2016. First work of fiction by an esteemed biographer and academic.
Michael Holzman has written the biographies of James Angleton (The CIA and the Craft of Counterintelligence. publ. University of Massachusetts Press) Guy Burgess (Revolutionary in an Old School Tie) and Donald and Melinda Maclean (Idealism and Espionage. publ Chelmsford Press 2014) He is also the author of Lukacs's Road to God; Writing As Social Action (with Marilyn Cooper); The Chains of Black America: The Hammer of the Police, The Anvil of the School. He has also written reports, articles, and academic papers on the subject of education and the condition of American descendants of enslaved Africans. This is his first work of fiction. He lives with his wife in New York's Hudson River Valley.
Praise for Michael Holzman.DONALD AND MELINDA MACLEAN:IDEALISM AND ESPIONAGE. by Michael Holzman (Chelmsford Press 1914) "Historian Michael Holzman has revisited (this) subject based on extensive research of new material that has become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union..Holzman quotes some of his (Maclean's) writings on the Soviet economy that, he suggests, presaged those of Gorbachev... this book is the best treatment of the Maclean case to date." Hayden Peake in Studies in Intelligence. (the house publication of the CIA) JAMES ANGLETON, THE CIA, AND THE CRAFT OF COUNTER INTELLIGENCE; "Holzman"s brisk, uncluttered book offers valuable access to previously untapped material on Angleton, who became the first head of the Counter-intelligence Staff of the CIA. In particular, it makes incisive use of his years as a student of English at Yale and the influence on him of the New Critics and modernist poets of his day."Terence Hawkes. Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Cardiff.
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