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Elizebeth Smith, a great Shakespeare expert, went to work for an eccentric businessman on his home outside Chicago in 1912, during the height of World War I. The tycoon had extensive contacts with the US government, and he quickly requested Elizebeth to use her linguistic abilities to help him with an intriguing new project: code-cracking. There she met the man who would become her husband, William Friedman, a pioneering cryptologist.

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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.

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Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer, David Michaelis gives us an in-depth biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts.