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Description edit
By bestselling author Jenny Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as an OSS agent in the Far East.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Paul Child: Julia Child's soon-to-be husband; artistic ladies' man.
- Jane Foster: OSS agent with decided Communist leanings. Supported Sukarno after WWII. Friend of the Childs.
- Julia McWilliams Child: From a prominent Republican family in California, joined the OSS out of duty and a sense of adventure.
- Betty Macdonald: Fellow OSS agent and friend of Jane.
- George Zlatovski: Add a description of this character.
- Joe McCarthy: Red-baiting congressman from Wisconsin.
- Donovan: OSS director.
- Sukarno: Eventual leader of Indonesia after a struggle for independence.
- Charles
- Mountbatten
- Dick Heppner
- Jack Soble
- Stilwell
- Martha Dodd Stern
- Coughlin
- Leo
- Howard
- Wheeler
- Julie
- Alex Macdonald
- Rosie
- Gracey
- Boudin
- Boris Morros
- Janie
- Sterns
- Bateson
- Dewey
- Marjorie
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: US president during most of WWII.
- Nathan
- Crockett
- Jeanne Taylor
- Smith
- Wedemeyer
- Myra Soble
- Bob Koke
- Thibaut De Saint Phalle
- Cora
- Susan
Setting & Locations edit
- Washington
- Paris
- Indochina
- United States
- Ceylon
- New York
- Burma
- Indonesia
- America
- Kandy
- India
- France
- Kunming
- Batavia
- Japan
- Thailand
- Saigon
- Europe
- Germany
- Southeast Asia
- Calcutta
- Bangkok
- Bonn
- Colombo
- San Francisco
- California
- Far East
- Singapore
- Hollywood
- Chungking
- New Delhi
- Bali
- Soviet Union
- Moscow
- Virginia
- Malaya
- Sobles
- Russia
- Pasadena
- Austria
- Venona
- Pacific
- Vienna
- Sumatra
- Usis
- Manchuria
- Berlin
- Salzburg
Themes & Symbolism edit
- McCarthyism: Expounds on how Joe McCarthy's red-baiting destroyed lives, most innocent.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jennet Conant (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 909
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › History › World
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs
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