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Jennet Conant discusses A Covert Affair: The Adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS


04/21/2011 7:00 pm

Jennet Conant 

EVENT:  Jennet Conant, The New York Times Bestselling author, appears for her latest book of A Covert Affair: The Adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS.

AUTHOR:  Jennet Conant is the author of The New York Times Bestsellers The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington and Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II.  A former journalist, she has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, and The New York Times.  She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.

DATE & TIME:  Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM

LOCATION:  Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112

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EVENT FORMAT:  Jennet Conant will discuss her new Book and the research behind it, followed by a Booksigning.  A Stamped Admission Ticket is required for the Booksigning.

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Location: 
Street:
Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary
Additional:
707 W 47th Street
City:
Kansas City
,
Province:
Missouri
Postal Code:
64112
Country:
United States
Book List
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9781439163528
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Simon & Schuster, 4/2011

A stunning account of Julia Child's early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt. Bestselling author Jennet Conant has written a wonderful and meticulously researched book about three young women who were recruited by the OSS in Washington and sent to remote outposts in the Far East. The bright and often eccentric Julia springs to life in these pages, and the book follows her personal and political coming of age in Ceylon and China, and life altering romance at thirty-four with the much older and more worldly Paul Childs.

The dramatic experiences of Julia's close friend Jane Foster, a charismatic blue-eyed blond OSS agent, casts light on those nightmarish postwar years. During the height of the McCarthy red hunt, Foster was accused of being a spy. Suspicion quickly fell on her closest friends, Julia and Paul Child, who stayed loyal to Jane Foster, left the diplomatic corps and found a new line of work. And the rest, as they say, is history.


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