the woman who smashed codes by jason fagone

She found the concept of aristocracy liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or religious knowledge. She helped catch gangsters and smugglers, exposed a. He traces Elizebeth’s developing career through World War I, Prohibition, and the struggle against fascism.

#4 Elizebeth’s father didn’t want her to go to college, but she went anyway, studying Greek and English literature at top liberal arts schools. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman who played an integral role in our nation’s historyfrom the Great War to the Cold War. Her father, John Marion Smith, traced his lineage to an English Quaker who sailed to America in 1682 on the same boat as William Penn. They were midwestern people of modest means, Quakers from Huntington, Indiana. #3 Elizebeth’s family had never shared her fear of being ordinary. She was met by George Fabyan, who invited her to come to Riverbank and spend the night with him. Journalist Jason Fagone has tapped into a little-known piece of history with his latest book, The Woman Who Smashed Codes. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. Elizebeth was a little more open and curious about new technologies, and she did use some of the earliest punch-card computers to help break a few code systems toward the end of WWII, but to her, computers took some of the fun out of the thing the joy of seeing a solution appear at the tip of your pencil. #2 Elizebeth Smith was a twenty-three-year-old woman who went to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1916 to look for a job. She explained that she was the last person who might remember the crags of things.

Sample Book Insights: #1 Elizebeth was interviewed by the NSA in 1976, and she kept referring to the events of Riverbank Laboratories as if they were still recent. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

The woman who smashed codes by jason fagone