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Falcon and the Snowman, The: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage
Author: Lindsey, Robert
Publisher/Year: Lyons Press (2002)
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 1585745022
Item ID: USH-13788
Size/Weight: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 / 1.1
Pages: 360
Date Added: 10/23/2006
$16.95
Tense, intriguing, and darkly compelling, The Falcon and the Snowman is a
uniquely American story of betrayal. On the face of it, there was nothing to
indicate that Andrew Dalton Lee and Christopher James Boyce were anything but
two devout Catholic boys growing up in happy, warm families in one of the most
affluent suburbs in America, living one version of the American Dream and facing
nothing but the best of futures. Bright and idealistic, the son of a former FBI
agent, 21-year-old Boyce was adrift in the malaise and disenchantment of the
late 1960s. His high school friend Dalton Lee had wandered from his childhood
days as an altar boy to become a successful drug dealer in trouble with the law
and looking for the big score. In July of 1974 Boyce's father used his influence
to help his son get a job at TRW, a Southern California aerospace company that
was developing and manufacturing satellites used by the CIA. Less than a year
later Boyce and Lee launched a plan to sell the CIA's secrets to the Russians
and began a career as Soviet agents, complete with international intrigue,
secret codes, clandestine meetings, and miniature cameras. The Falcon and the
Snowman is, ultimately, a dark story of murder plots, betrayal, and the
wrenching consequences of impulsive decisions. Intensively researched, it draws
on hundreds of interviews with all the principals involved, on letters, and on
materials from Boyce and Lee's eventual trials. Robert Lindsey has crafted a
suspenseful, extraordinary tale that pulls readers in on the first page and
leaves them wanting more by book's end.
Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness
Item code: USH-61255
ISBN: 0375400788
Authors: Thomas P. Slaughter.
Pages/Length: 231
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: History
Date Added: 9/22/2006
$24.00
Most Americans know that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led our nation's
first transcontinental exploratory expedition, sent west by Thomas Jefferson in
1803. This book probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking
past what the explorers chose to report and offering a more human view of the
woman and men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along
the way. Thomas Slaughter portrays Lewis and Clark not as heroes but as
men—brave, but woefully ambitious and bound by cultural prejudices, and
therefore vulnerable to wild misinterpretations of the world they found. He also
offers realistic views of the guide Sacajawea and Clark's slave York.
"Tom Slaughter's Exploring Lewis and Clark is a sometimes wickedly delightful
re-examination of our legend of the Lewis and Clark expedition."—Kenneth A.
Lockridge
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
tem code: USH-70359
ISBN: 0195159241
Authors: John Ferling.
Pages/Length: 558
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: History
Date Added: 1/26/2007
Price: $30.00
This vivid portrait of the early American republic surges from
the first rumblings of colonial protest to the volcanic outburst of 1776, and
through the seismic struggles of the new country to determine its direction,
culminating in the bitterly contested election of 1800. Here Benjamin Franklin
seriously weighs whether his loyalty was to Great Britain or to America; George
Washington is a shrewd planter-businessman who realizes there are personal
economic advantages to American independence; and after the war, New England
struggles with whether it should secede from the rest of the newly united
states.
"This deft account of the American struggle for independence dispels the aura of
inevitability that usually surrounds such histories by beginning its narrative
not on the verge of the Revolution but twenty years earlier.... Ferling vividly
evokes the political turmoil of the post-Revolutionary years. Even as he takes
the Founders off their pedestals, their accomplishments only gain in
stature."—The New Yorker
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