BOOK AND DAGGER: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

In desperate need of an intelligence agency, the U.S. formed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA. To fill its ranks with experts, they turned to academia for recruits. These surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.