April 9, 2015
How does a Harvard-educated U.S. State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history, become a hard-core Stalinist? Best-selling author Kati Marton unravels this perplexing story in her forthcoming book, which carries the working title, “The Believer: Stalin’s Last American.” Marton, a fellow at CEU’s Institute for Advanced Study, read from her first draft and described her inspiration in a talk at CEU April 1.
“It’s the story of the power of an idea,” Marton said. “About fanaticism and faith. Field was unique – he was a believer to his last breath.”
