On August 25 & 26, author Elyse Graham presents Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II (Harper Collins, 2024). At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency, and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—a precursor to today’s CIA—was quickly formed. To fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work. Drawing on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files, historian Elyse Graham tells the story of …
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