The Orientalist : Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Tom Reiss (Author), 3M Company
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, -- Ali and Nino But Lev?s life grew wilder than his wildest stories.? He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity?until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal.? His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck?also a friend of both Freud?s and Einstein?s?was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States.? Lev was invited to be Mussolini?s official biographer?until the Fascists discovered his "true" identity.? Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book?discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone?helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons-smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.? Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks.? Beginning with a yearlong investigation for -- The Orientalist? From the Hardcover edition
eBook, English, 2005
Random House Publishing Group, [Place of publication not identified], 2005
1 online resource 1 online resource (464 pages)
9781588364449, 1588364445
1014268305
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