TY - BOOK AU - Kahn,David TI - The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking SN - 9780300129885 AV - UB271.U52Y374 2004 U1 - 940.4/8673/092;B PY - 2014/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - World War, 1914-1918 -- Cryptography KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A Short Course in Codes and Ciphers -- How Yardley Wrote His Best-Seller -- All-American Boy -- His Life's Work -- A History of American Intelligence before Yardley -- A Rival -- Staffers, Shorthand, and Secret Ink -- The Executive -- Morning in New York -- Yardley's Triumph -- The Fruits of His Victory -- The Busy Suburbanite -- End of a Dream -- The Best-Seller -- The Critics, the Effects -- Grub Street -- A Law Aimed at Yardley -- Hollywood -- China -- Canada -- A Restaurant of His Own -- Playing Poker -- The Measure of a Man -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3420152 ER -