Ep. 218 Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"

"Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in the old Brooklyn Dodgers NFL franchise before becoming a City Hall lawyer and 'Brain Trust' aide to President Franklin Roosevelt." While on the payroll of national radio columnist Walter Winchell, Cuneo "mingled with the famous and powerful. But his status as a spy remained a secret, hiding in plain sight." All of this is the way Hanover Square Press introduces readers to Thomas Maier's book, "The Invisible Spy." Maier, a graduate of Fordham and Columbia, is an author and a television producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booknotes+ Brian Lamb s gift to America

Brian Lamb is a terrific interviewer and one of the most successful interviewers of authors and public figures of the ladt half century. I never tire of his worj and often wonder how he has managed to stay at it so long. this is a very interesting book about WW2.