![]() ![]() ![]() Elizebeth meets her future husband in a scientific arcadia populated by eccentric millionaires, windmills, and monkeys in diapers, and her decryptions help take down Nazis during World War II. codebreaking and the intelligence community as we know it - and it reads like some wild cross between a fairy tale and a gripping detective thriller. “You hear a voice that bursts from a body or a page with beauty or urgency or insight.” And Elizebeth Friedman, the woman in question and one of the first, best codebreakers in the United States in the early 20th century, is a gem of a voice.įagone’s book details Elizebeth’s long and rollicking career - one where she lays the foundation of U.S. “You get these moments sometimes as a journalist, if you’re lucky,” he writes. When Jason Fagone discovered the subject of his new book, “The Woman Who Smashed Codes,” he felt as if he were stumbling on buried treasure. ![]()
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