Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961

by Robin W. Winks

Book Overview

A history of the American intelligence effort from the creation of the OSS through 1961. These names of university professors and scholars are known throughout America, but their backgrounds are not. Winks reveals the shadowy game that is played on the campus as well as in the back streets of Milan and Vienna.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068807300X
• ISBN13: 9780688073008
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Winks was a genius

He was there with a capacity for idetic imagery. He knew so much and shares much of it here, definitively. A very important book.

excellent and it just won the Edgar award.

Co-editor Maureen Corrigan book reviewer on NPR Prgram Fresh Air is well worth reading. Lots of valuable info in a very detailed interesting work.