A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
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Communist Party in , he was forced out of the Comintern in by Stalin's political maneuverings.
A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
He also developed an intelligence-gathering unit within the organization that traded information with the CIA until the mids. Lovestone lived a fairly reclusive life, shunning the spotlight that some of his more colorful colleagues and coconspirators, such as James Jesus Angleton and George Meany, craved. As a result, Ted Morgan's biography emphasizes Lovestone's political fights both within the Communist Party and against it. Although Morgan believes that his subject's anticommunist beliefs were genuine, one finishes A Covert Life with the conclusion that Lovestone's motivations lay in his obsessive love of political intrigue rather than the ideological passions that moved both the far left and extreme right for much of the 20th century.
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While the book doesn't dwell in what Vivian Gornick called "the romance of American communism," it does present a precise portrait of how this ideology was stifled and how the American labor movement aided the intelligence community in combating Soviet influence over international labor. Burroughs and Somerset Maugham turns his attention this time to the not-so-famous but intriguing Jay Lovestone Born Jacob Liebstein, Lovestone kept reinventing himself, altering not only his name but also his resume, his personality and his ideology. He was a youthful leader of the American Communist Party during the s, when many intellectuals found the Soviet experiment irresistible.
Some of the most absorbing passages of the book? Lovestone and a band of his supporters went to Moscow in to plead their case before a special Comintern committee headed by Stalin. Lovestone found himself on the wrong side of Stalin, expelled from the American Communist Party and, most frighteningly, stuck in Russia with no friends and without his passport.
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He escaped Moscow, made his way back to the States and embarked on a successful career as a professional anti-communist. Of Lovestone's contributions to the Cold War, Morgan writes: Readers looking for more than a symbol of a century's ideological turmoil may find Morgan's Lovestone at once remote and exhausting. Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime.
The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in , Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the Second World War.
He became one of the leading strategists of the Cold War, and was once described as "one of the five most important men in the hidden power structure of America.
The life Morgan describes is full of drama and intrigue. He recounts Lovestone's career in the faction-riven world of American Communism until he was spirited out of Moscow in after Stalin publicly attacked him for doctrinal unorthodoxy. As Lovestone veered away from Moscow, he came to work for the American Federation of Labor, managing a separate union foreign policy as well as maintaining his own intelligence operations for the CIA, many under the command of the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton.
Lovestone also associated with Louise Page Morris, a spy known as "the American Mata Hari," who helped him undermine Communist advances in the developing world and whose own significant espionage career is detailed here.
Lovestone's influence, always exercised from behind the scenes, survived to the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union. A Covert Life has all the elements of a classic spy thriller: It is written with the easy hand of a fine biographer The Washington Post Book World called Ted Morgan "a master storyteller" and provides a history of the Cold War and a glimpse into the machinery of the CIA while also revealing many hitherto hidden details of the superpower confrontation that dominated postwar global politics.
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