"Horse Under Water Horse Under Water (1963, , ) is the second of four Len Deighton spy novels featuring an unnamed British agent protagonist (named Harry Palmer in the film adaptions). It was preceded by ""The IPCRESS File"" and followed by ""Funeral in Berlin"". The novel is set in 1960, mostly in a small fishing village in Portugal, which was then a dictatorship led by António de Oliveira Salazar. It retains the style of ""The IPCRESS File"" — multiple plots twists, Gauloises cigarettes, grimy, and soot-stained British winter. In common with several of Deighton's other early novels, the chapter headings"
"Frances Cress Welsing Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, ""The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)"", offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture. She was the author of ""The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors"" (1991). Welsing caused controversy after she said that homosexuality among African-Americans was a ploy by white males to decrease the black population. Welsing was born Frances Luella Cress in Chicago on March 18, 1935. Her father, Dr. Henry N. Cress, was"
"Security, Subversive Control, Espionage, and Employees Security Sections in view of mention in the book of substantive cases pertaining to those sections. Sullivan noted, ""There is no identifiable derogatory information regarding Iversen in Bureau files."" Iversen married Mary Drake; they had two sons. Iversen died age 68 on September 28, 1988, of stomach cancer at his home in Syracuse, New York. Iversen's principal work, ""The Communists and the Schools"" formed part of a Fund for the Republic series on ""Communism in American Life"". Clinton Rossiter oversaw the series, which also included ""The Roots of American Communism"" by Theodore Draper (1957)."
"Douglas McGrath Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (born February 12, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He also writes political commentary, such as ""The Flapjack File"", a column for ""The New Republic"". McGrath was nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA award for his ""Bullets over Broadway"" screenplay. He was twice nominated for a Writers Guild of America award, in 1995 for ""Bullets over Broadway"", and in 1997 for ""Emma"". McGrath is the son of Beatrice and R. Searle McGrath, an independent oil producer from Midland, Texas. He is an alumnus of Trinity School of Midland, The"
"Henry Spencer Ashbee Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer. He is notable for his massive, clandestine three-volume bibliography of erotic literature published under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi. Ashbee was born in Southwark, London. He was by occupation a textile trader, the senior partner in the London branch of the firm of Charles Lavy & Co. He travelled extensively during his life, including Europe, Japan, and San Francisco, collaborating with the American politician Alexander Graham on ""Travels in Tunisia"", published in 1887. Ashbee married Elisabeth Lavy in Hamburg, Germany"
"Choate School, and Princeton University. At Princeton, he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and joined its board of directors after graduation. In 1995, McGrath married Jane Read Martin, a former assistant of Woody Allen's and sister of author Ann M. Martin. She and McGrath have a son named Henry. Douglas McGrath Douglas Geoffrey McGrath (born February 12, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He also writes political commentary, such as ""The Flapjack File"", a column for ""The New Republic"". McGrath was nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA award for his ""Bullets"
"Society. In 1983, Schappes submitted an oral history of his life to Columbia University in New York City, material which was transcribed into 66 pages. Morris Schappes Morris U. Schappes (pronounced ""SHAP-pess"", born Moishe Shapshilevich; 1907–2004) was an American educator, writer, radical political activist, historian, and magazine editor, best remembered for a 1941 perjury conviction obtained in association with testimony before the Rapp-Coudert Committee (investigating Communism in education in New York) and as long-time editor of the radical magazine ""Jewish Currents."" Morris U. Schappes was born Moishe ben Haim Shapshilevich in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire. The"
"files in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In order to keep the study secret from others, including National Security Advisor Walt W. Rostow, they conducted no interviews or consultations with the armed forces, with the White House, or with other federal agencies. McNamara left the Defense Department in February 1968, and his successor Clark M. Clifford received the finished study on January 15, 1969, five days before Richard Nixon's inauguration, although Clifford claimed he never read it. The study consisted of 3,000 pages of historical analysis and 4,000 pages of original government documents in 47 volumes, and was"
"Christopher Phillips Christopher Phillips (born July 15, 1959) is an American author, educator, consultant, lecturer, and pro-democracy advocate. He is best known for his 2001 book ""Socrates Café"". Public Radio International called Phillips the ""Johnny Appleseed of Philosophy."" Phillips's latest book ""A Child At Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life"" was published in March 2018. Foreword Reviews and Adam Braun both praised it. According to Phillips, he read Plato's Socratic dialogues when he was about 12. After graduating from Menchville High School, he received a BA in Government from the College of"
"feminizing Black men is also described by Welsing as bi-sexuality and homosexuality. By December 30, 2015, Welsing suffered two strokes and was placed in critical care at a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. She died on January 2, 2016, at the age of 80. Frances Cress Welsing Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, ""The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)"", offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture. She was the author of ""The Isis Papers: The Keys to the"
"promotion of contraception. Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he"
"him for financial gain. The newspaper said it examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be ""inconclusive."" Phillips wrote and lectured frequently on intelligence matters. He authored five books, including his CIA memoir ""The Night Watch"", ""Careers in Secret Operations: How to Be a Federal Intelligence Officer"", ""The Terror Brigade,"" ""The Carlos Contract,"" and ""The Great Texas Murder Trials: A Compelling Account of the Sensational T. Cullen Davis Case."" Phillips died at his home in Bethesda, Maryland from complications of cancer on July 7, 1988; at the age of 65. In 1948,"
"Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor"
"Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called ""the woman who invented dark fantasy"". Her most famous books include ""Claimed"" (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to ""The Argosy"" called ""One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read"") and the lost world novel ""The Citadel of Fear"". Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, ""The Heads of Cerberus"" (1919)."
"Morris Schappes Morris U. Schappes (pronounced ""SHAP-pess"", born Moishe Shapshilevich; 1907–2004) was an American educator, writer, radical political activist, historian, and magazine editor, best remembered for a 1941 perjury conviction obtained in association with testimony before the Rapp-Coudert Committee (investigating Communism in education in New York) and as long-time editor of the radical magazine ""Jewish Currents."" Morris U. Schappes was born Moishe ben Haim Shapshilevich in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire. The Shapshilevich family left Tsarist Russia when Morris was a small child, living first in Brazil before emigrating to the United States in 1914. The family"
"Bruce Eisner Bruce Jay Ehrlich (February 26, 1948 – January 1, 2013), better known by his pen name Bruce Eisner, was an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book ""Ecstasy: The MDMA Story"". Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age 2, he moved with his family to the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles where he lived for the next 25 years. His first publication was at age 16, when he won an LA County-wide essay contest. The essay, ""Democracy and What It Means to Me"" was published in the Congressional Record by Congressman"
"for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. Florence Rush Florence Rush (January 23, 1918 – December 9, 2008) was an American certified social worker (M.S.W. from the University of Pennsylvania), feminist theorist and organizer best known for introducing The Freudian Coverup in her presentation ""The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View"" about childhood sexual abuse and incest at the April 1971 New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) Rape Conference. Rush's paper at the time was"
"naturalization papers for two years. Finally, Russell found an article in the ""Jewish Daily Forward"" (Yiddish ""Forverts"") dated March 8, 1947, that stated that Liptzen and Josephson are friends and that Liptzen had a long history in the Soviet underground, for which he was expelled from unions and wound up at the ""Freiheit"". Alwyn Cole, Treasury examiner, reported that his examination of handwriting on the 1934 passport application revealed that the handwriting of the signature ""Bernard A. Hirschfield"" belonged to Leon Josephson. Cole did not find the signature ""Samuel Liptzen"" as confidently belonging to Gerhart Eisler, though he was confident"
"workshop that followed was 'Suppose you chance to write a book', Line 17 of 'Myself' from page 2 of ""Fumes of Formation"". Amanda McKittrick Ros Anna Margaret Ross (née McKittrick; 8 December 1860 – 2 February 1939), known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer. She published her first novel ""Irene Iddesleigh"" at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, over-written, ""purple"" circumlocutory writing is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written. McKittrick was"
"Programme and to ""The IT Crowd"" for Best Situation Comedy dedicated their awards to Perkins. Geoffrey Perkins Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995–2001), he produced the first two radio series of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside"
"López Michelsen (1974–1978) of Colombia as CIA collaborators or agents. Following this he details how he resigned from the CIA and began writing the book, conducting research in Cuba, London and Paris. During this time he alleged that the CIA spied on him. The cover of the book actually featured an image of the bugged typewriter given to Agee by a CIA agent as part of their surveillance and attempts to stop publication of the book. In 1982, the United States Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA), legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works. The law would"
"be used as evidence if a prosecution should arise, as had happened in the case of some of his Irish pamphlets (the ""Drapier's Letters""). In March 1726 Swift travelled to London to have his work published; the manuscript was secretly delivered to the publisher Benjamin Motte, who used five printing houses to speed production and avoid piracy. Motte, recognising a best-seller but fearing prosecution, cut or altered the worst offending passages (such as the descriptions of the court contests in Lilliput and the rebellion of Lindalino), added some material in defence of Queen Anne to Part II, and published it."
"and early 19th century, particularly Wollstonecraft who reviewed Gibbes' work with delight, were inspired in part by this prodigal 18th century author. Phebe Gibbes Phebe Gibbes (died 1805) was an 18th-century English novelist and early feminist. She authored twenty-two books between 1764 and 1790, and is best known for the novels ""The History of Mr. Francis Clive"" (1764), ""The Fruitless Repentance; or, the History of Miss Kitty Le Fever"" (1769), and ""The History of Miss Eliza Musgrove"" (1769). She received recent attention with the scholarly publication of ""Hartly House Calcutta"" (1789) in 2007. Phebe Gibbes possesses one of the most"
"Philip Graves Philip Perceval Graves (25 February 1876 – 3 June 1953) was an Irish journalist and writer. While working as a foreign correspondent of ""The Times"" in Constantinople, he exposed ""The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"" as an antisemitic plagiarism, fraud and hoax. Graves, eldest son of the writer Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931), was born in Ballylickey Manor, County Cork, Ireland, into a prominent Anglo-Irish family. He studied in Haileybury and Oxford University, where he received a BA from Oriel College in March 1900. He was the elder half brother of author Robert Graves. As a correspondent of"
"Ivins was inspired by the book to hide secret codes based upon nucleotide sequences in the anthrax-laced letters he allegedly sent in September and October 2001, using bold letters, as suggested on page 404 of the book. It was also suggested that he attempted to hide the book from investigators by throwing it in the trash. Hofstadter claims the idea of translating his book ""never crossed [his] mind"" when he was writing it—but when his publisher brought it up, he was ""very excited about seeing [the] book in other languages, especially… French."" He knew, however, that ""there were a million"
"his book with a co-author, John D. Marks and signed a book contract with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. In August 1973, they submitted their manuscript to the CIA. After reviewing the manuscript, the Agency responded with a list of 339 passages which it claimed were classified information and demanded their deletion. Marchetti and Marks rejected the demand, and indicated they would go to court to print the manuscript as written. CIA then withdrew its objections to 171 of the items, but stood firm on the remaining 168. The trial was held again before Judge Bryan. This time, however, he rejected"
"Eustace Mullins Eustace Clarence Mullins Jr. (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010) was an antisemitic American writer, propagandist, Holocaust denier, and disciple of the poet Ezra Pound. His best-known book is ""The Secrets of The Federal Reserve"", in which he alleged that several high-profile bankers had conspired to write the Federal Reserve Act for their own nefarious purposes, and then induced Congress to enact it into law. David Randall called Mullins ""one of the world's leading conspiracy theorists."" The Southern Poverty Law Center described him as ""a one-man organization of hate"". Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. was born in Roanoke,"
"Whittle, ""Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books"" () was published in June 2007. All feature Gervase Fen. Crispin also edited seven volumes entitled ""Best Science Fiction"", which were published during the 1960s. Edmund Crispin Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels. Montgomery was born in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1943, with a BA in modern languages, having"
"was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. It was not until 1995 that the work in its entirety was published openly in the UK, by Arrow Books. The identity of ""Walter"" is unknown. There is no scholarly consensus in favour of any of the candidates proposed. The most commonly suggested author is Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900). He was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer and, from the three volumes he published under his pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, the expert"
"Iwan Bloch Iwan Bloch (also known as Ivan Bloch) (April 8, 1872 – November 21, 1922) was a German dermatologist and psychiatrist. Born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of ""The 120 Days of Sodom"", which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904. In 1899 he had published ""Marquis de Sade: his life and works."" under the same pseudonym. Together with Magnus Hirschfeld and Albert Eulenburg, Bloch proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality: ""Sexualwissenschaft"""
"Clifford Irving Clifford Michael Irving (November 5, 1930 – December 19, 2017) was an American novelist and investigative reporter. Although he published 20 novels, he is best known for an ""autobiography"" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. The fictional work was to have been published in 1972. After Hughes denounced him and sued the publisher, McGraw-Hill, Irving and his collaborators confessed to the hoax. He was sentenced to 2½ years in prison, of which he served 17 months. Irving wrote ""The Hoax"" (1981), his account of events surrounding the development and sale of the fake"
"Phebe Gibbes Phebe Gibbes (died 1805) was an 18th-century English novelist and early feminist. She authored twenty-two books between 1764 and 1790, and is best known for the novels ""The History of Mr. Francis Clive"" (1764), ""The Fruitless Repentance; or, the History of Miss Kitty Le Fever"" (1769), and ""The History of Miss Eliza Musgrove"" (1769). She received recent attention with the scholarly publication of ""Hartly House Calcutta"" (1789) in 2007. Phebe Gibbes possesses one of the most elusive histories of the 18th-century women writers. Almost all of the information on Gibbes' life is derived from an application to the"
"Hitoshi Igarashi Igarashi was born in 1947. He completed his doctoral programme in Islamic art at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and was research fellow at the Royal Academy of Iran until the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Igarashi was an associate professor of comparative Islamic culture at the University of Tsukuba. He translated Avicenna's ""The Canon of Medicine"" and Salman Rushdie's ""Satanic Verses"" and wrote books on Islam, including ""The Islamic Renaissance"" and ""Medicine and Wisdom of the East"". In 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of ""the author of the Satanic Verses book,"