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American. Genre. Non-fiction. Scott Anderson (born 1959) is an American novelist, non-fiction author, and war correspondent. He has authored non-fiction books including Lawrence in Arabia, The Man Who tried to Save the World, and War Zones, as well as the novels Triage and Moonlight Hotel.
- 1959 (age 63–64)
- Novelist
- American
- Non-fiction
Sep 1, 2020 · Published Sept. 1, 2020 Updated Sept. 2, 2020. THE QUIET AMERICANS. Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War — a Tragedy in Three Acts. By Scott Anderson. Once upon a time, there was a nation...
- Kevin Peraino
Scott Anderson has been a contributing writer of the New York Times Magazine for 15 years. A war correspondent, novelist, and nonfiction book writer, he has covered conflicts on four continents...
Sep 1, 2020 · An Amazon Best Book of September 2020: Scott Anderson’s The Quiet Americans is a deeply-researched history that reads like a character driven novel. At the end of World War II, the United States began turning its attention to the Soviet Union, and the relatively new CIA became integral to the covert effort to confront the Soviets.
- Scott Anderson
- $30
- Doubleday
Sep 16, 2020 · Scott Anderson Book on CIA Spies and the Dawn of the Cold War. Politics. Spies, Paranoia, Revolution, and the Rise of American Empire. A new book explains how the Cold War turned America’s...
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- Andy Kroll
Aug 8, 2013 · As Scott Anderson says at the beginning of “Lawrence in Arabia,” “historians have never quite decided what to make of the young, bashful Oxford scholar who rode into battle at the head of an...
Chronicling the fascinating lives of four agents, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, who organized parachute commandos from an Italian villa; Frank Wisner, an ingenious spymaster who directed actions around the world; Peter Sichel, a German Jew who outwitted the ruthless KGB in Berlin; and Edward Lansdale, a ...
