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Mike and Elizabeth Barrett are living a comfortable life in Munich. Mike is with U.S. Army counterintelligence, serving as a linguist screening newly arrived immigrants from East Germany. Elizabeth takes care of their two children and serves as the president of the Munich-American Elementary School. Then it all falls apart. It is hard for Mike Barrett to see and feel the humiliation his wife, Elizabeth, feels from being accused of being a Communist sympathizer. Only a few years earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism ruined so many reputations and careers. Was it happening again to the Barrett family?…mehr

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Mike and Elizabeth Barrett are living a comfortable life in Munich. Mike is with U.S. Army counterintelligence, serving as a linguist screening newly arrived immigrants from East Germany. Elizabeth takes care of their two children and serves as the president of the Munich-American Elementary School. Then it all falls apart. It is hard for Mike Barrett to see and feel the humiliation his wife, Elizabeth, feels from being accused of being a Communist sympathizer. Only a few years earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism ruined so many reputations and careers. Was it happening again to the Barrett family?
Autorenporträt
Ted Hovey earned his MFA at Hamline University. He served with the U.S. Army in Munich, Germany, from 1960 to 1962 - the period of the Berlin Wall Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the Army, Hovey worked as a CPA.