Code name Puritan : Norman Holmes Pearson at the nexus of poetry, espionage, and American power /
"Norman Holmes Pearson was a scholar and a spy. His scholarship brought him close to poets like Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and W. H. Auden. But he also was close to the CIA, where he sponsored the careers of ambitious young men like James Jesus Angleton, the eventual...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Born a puritan
- Bright college years
- The cream of American intellectuality
- Big shots
- Heady society
- The puritan goes to war
- The hot property
- Grampaw and the commahunter
- The networker
- An intellectual ménage à trois
- American studies and the American century
- Odd man in
- Conclusion.