Conversations from the Cullman Center: The Lost Spy: Espionage & Idealism Before the Cold War

September 24, 2008

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Former Cullman Center Fellow Andrew Meier and Sam Tanenhaus discuss The Lost Spy, Meier?s forthcoming biography of Soviet secret agent Isaiah Oggins. Andrew Meier was a Cullman Fellow in 2005-2006. He is the author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall and Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict. He contributes to Harper?s, The Financial Times Magazine, and National Geographic, among other publications, and is a writer-in-residence at the New School University. Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections. His books include Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Louis Armstrong.