A Life in Code - Pioneer Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman

Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed codebreaker solving a "trunk-full" of smugglers' encrypted messages to get Uncle Sam out of the mess: Elizebeth Smith Friedman's groundbreaking work helped prove the boat was owned by American gangsters.
This book traces the career of a legendary U.S. law enforcement agent, from her work for the Allies during World War I through Prohibition, when she faced danger from mobsters while testifying in high profile trials. Friedman founded the cryptanalysis unit that provided evidence against American rum runners and Chinese drug smugglers. During World War II, her decryptions brought a Japanese spy to justice and her Coast Guard unit solved the Enigma ciphers of German spies. Friedman's "all source intelligence" model is still used by law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies against 21st century threats.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

¿1.¿The Imperious Patron

¿2.¿The World War I Transformation

¿3.¿The Prohibition Years

¿4.¿Saving Face for Uncle Sam

¿5.¿A High Profile

¿6.¿Living with Flair and Cheating Death

¿7.¿A Rocky Start to the War

¿8.¿"The spy stuff!"

¿9.¿The Doll Woman

10.¿Postwar Career and Elizebeth Friedman's Legacy

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

G. Stuart Smith is a journalism professor at Hofstra University. As a television reporter and videographer he won awards for investigative and feature reporting as well as videography. He lives in Stanfordville, New York.

Product details

• Authors: G. Stuart Smith, Smith G. Stuart
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2017
• EAN: 9781476669182
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6918-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Women, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Coding theory & cryptology, Coding theory and cryptology, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, real badass women