THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2014 by Frederick Brown

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An earlier version of chapter four was first published as “The Battle for Joan” in The Hudson Review, Vol. LXV, No. 3 (Autumn 2012).

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ISBN 978-0-307-59515-7
ISBN 978-0-385-35163-8 (eBook)

Cover image: Soviet pavilion at World’s Fair, Paris, France, 1937.
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Cover design by Carol Devine Carson

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