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Library Programs - Adult Book Group: Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy
Join university professors as they lead class discussions on these timely books which discuss the Constitution of the United States and the workings of the American court system. These classes are free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 7, 2013, 7 p.m. - Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War by H. Donald Winkler
 During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in the world's second-oldest profession-spying-a profession perilous in the extreme. The tales of female spies are filled with suspense, bravery, treachery, and trickery. They took enormous risks and achieved remarkable results-often in ways men could not do.
Scholar: Kathryn MacKay, WSU
Thursday, April 4, 2013, 7 p.m. - Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS by Elizabeth P. McIntosh &
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
  The daring missions of America s World War II intelligence agency, the Office ofStrategic Services (OSS), are the stuff of legend, yet the contributions made by the 4,000 women including Julia Child and Marlene Dietrich who served in the OSS are largely unheralded. To tell their fascinating stories, McIntosh, a veteran of sensitive OSS and CIA operations, draws on her own experiences and on interviews with more than 100 OSS women who served all over the world. Captured in rich detail are the riveting tales of clandestine spies, saboteurs, cryptographers, cartographers, analysts, and experts in propaganda, recruiting, and communications. Also to be read and discussed is the children’s book: Harriet The Spy.
Scholar: Kathryn Mackay, WSU
Thursday, May 2, 2013, 7 p.m. - Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clark
 Richard A. Clarke warned America once before about the havoc terrorism would wreak on our national security—and he was right. Now he warns us of another threat, silent but equally dangerous. Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. It explains clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, how cyber weapons work, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals. This is the first book about the war of the future—cyber war—and a convincing argument that we may already be in peril of losing it.
Scholar: Branden Little, WSU
Thursday, June 6, 2013, 7 p.m. - Enigma: The Battle for the Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
 Winston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code “the secret weapon that won the war.” Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the complete story of the breaking of the code by the Allies—the breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II.
This fascinating account relates the never-before-told, hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who faced death in order to capture vital codebooks from sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. Sebag-Montefiore also relates new details about the genesis of the code, little-known facts about how the Poles first cracked the Luftwaffe’s version of the code (and then passed it along to the British), and the feverish activities at Bletchley Park, Based in part on documents recently unearthed from American and British archives—including previously confidential government files—and in part on unforgettable, firsthand accounts of surviving witnesses, Enigma unearths the stunning truth about the brilliant piece of decryption that changed history.
Scholar: Kathryn MacKay, WSU
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 7 p.m. - The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
 A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.
Scholar: Sally Shigley, WSU
Thursday, August 1, 2013, 7 p.m. - American Assassin by Vince Flynn &
The Camel Club by David Baldacci
  John Le Carre's internationally famous hero, British Secret Service Agent GeorgeSmiley, has a world-class problem. He has discovered a mole--a Soviet double agent who has managed to burrow his way up to the highest level of British Intelligence. Under the direction of Karla, Smiley's equivalent in the Soviet Union, the agent has already blown some of the most vital secret operations and most productive networks. Now-how can Smiley use a lifetime's worth of espionage skills to ferret out a spy who possesses them as well?
Scholar: Sally Shigley , WSU
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 7 p.m. - Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer by Victor Cherkashin
 Cherkashin, a retired senior KGB officer, working with Feifer, a former Moscow correspondent for Radio Free Europe, gives readers an insider's view of the spy business from just after World War II through the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. This is at once fascinating and chilling. Cherkashin emphasizes the painstaking, plodding nature of spy work, but he also spikes his account with the stuff of a le Carre thriller Although the focus is on Soviet spycraft, Cherkashin's story--especially the recruitment and handling of Americans Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.. Read this not just as a spy expose but also as a social history of an especially volatile period in Russia.
Scholar: Branden Little, WSU
Thursday, November 7, 2013, 7 p.m. - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
 "Must reading for anyone interested in the CIA or American intelligence since World War II." —The Washington Post "Legacy of Ashes should be must-reading for every presidential candidate—and every American who wants to understand why the nation repeatedly stumbles into one disaster abroad after another.”—The Boston Globe “A timely and vital contribution . . . [that] glitters with relevance.”—Los Angeles Times“This is by far the scariest book of the year.”—The Christian Science Monitor.
Scholar: Branden Little, WSU
Thursday, December 5, 2013, 7 p.m. - Enigma: A Novel by Robert Harris
 At the heart of Britain's most precious World War II secret, breaking the Germans' codes lurks a spy who might be tipping off the enemy. Enter genius cryptanalyst Tom Jericho, who discovers that a woman with whom he had a sexual encounter has stolen some undeciphered cryptograms. When she disappears to boot, alarms galore ring off as the Foreign Office starts investigating and Jericho conducts a solo, unauthorized inquiry. The suspect's roommate, the mousy Hester Wallace, joins forces with Jericho, and they decipher the stolen messages.
Scholar: Sally Shigley, WSU
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Series 2013: Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy
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