Produced by Jeannie Howse, David Clarke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | The Book and the Author | | | | John L. Spivak comes closer to the popular conception of the | | ace journalist than any other living writer. Combining the | | instinct of a detective with the resourcefulness of a | | reporter, and gifted with a hard-hitting, breezy style, he | | has time and again "scooped the world," "gotten the | | story"--despite powerful opposition and personal danger that | | might well have daunted less hardy souls. | | | | But there is an important difference that sets Spivak apart | | from most other gentlemen of the press. For several years he | | has devoted his bright and sharp pen solely to uncovering | | evidence of fascist activities in the United | | States--evidence that is credited with having set off | | several official investigations exposing un-American, | | foreign-dominated propaganda. | | | | SECRET ARMIES climaxes Spivak's exposures. His sensational | | inside story of Hitler's far-flung, under-cover poison | | campaign in the Americas would seem scarcely credible, were | | it not so thoroughly documented with original letters and | | records, citing chapter and verse, naming names, dates and | | places. His unanswerable, uncontradicted facts should go far | | toward jolting many of us out of our false sense of | | security. | | |