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The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice

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37/100

Critics

96/100

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Author:

Katharine Gregorio

Publisher:

Sourcebooks

Date:

March 15, 2022

In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist and risking her life to smuggle away books that exposed the truth about Communist Yugoslavia to the world.

What The Reviewers Say

Joshua Rubenstein,
The Wall Street Journal
Katharine Gregorio tells Clark’s story in engaging, well-researched and vivid detail.
Peggy Kurkowski,
Shelf Awareness
Katharine Gregorio tells the thrilling story of her great-aunt, the first American woman to work as a wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain. Gregorio recounts Clark's heroic efforts to spread the truth about Communism to the world.

Publishers Weekly
Gregorio debuts with a rousing and rigorously researched biography of her great-aunt Katharine Clark.