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003    OCoLC 
005    20170920065446.0 
008    170914s2017    nyua     b    001 0beng d 
020    9780062430489 
020    0062430483 
020    9780062430519|q(First Dey St. trade paperback edition) 
020    0062430513 
035    (OCoLC)1004261882 
040    NFR|beng|erda|cNFR|dUtOrBLW 
082 14 652.8092 
092    BIO|bFRIEDMAN 
100 1  Fagone, Jason,|eauthor. 
245 14 The woman who smashed codes :|ba true story of love, spies,
       and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies /
       |cJason Fagone. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bDey St., an imprint of William Morrow,
       |c[2017] 
300    xvi, 444 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant 
       Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an 
       eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon
       had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked 
       Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new 
       venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would 
       become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William 
       Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the 
       "Adam and Eve" of the NSA, Elizebeth's story, incredibly, 
       has never been told  In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason
       Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, 
       who played an integral role in our nation's history for 
       forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to 
       catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then 
       accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy 
       rings that were spreading like wildfire across South 
       America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As 
       World War II raged, Elizabeth fought a highly classified 
       battle of wits against Hitler's Reich, cracking multiple 
       versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. 
       Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William 
       worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of 
       Enigma--and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to 
       his personal life.Fagone unveils America's code-breaking 
       history through the prism of Smith's life, bringing into 
       focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities 
       that would help shape modern intelligence.   Blending the 
       lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks 
       of Erik Larson's bestsellers with the atmosphere and 
       intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed 
       Codes is page-turning popular history at its finest.  
600 10 Friedman, Elizebeth,|d1892-1980. 
650  0 Cryptographers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Cryptography|zUnited States|xHistory.