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A review by firstwords
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
4.0
3.5-4 stars. As a friend said, wonderful to see this person get her due. And boyyyyyyyy, if you didn't like J. Edgar before...
One bit that was confusing to me was, it stated that they needed two incomes to send the kids to school, but that in 1946, she did not try at all to keep or get a job, but instead went back to domestic life. This was not a woman or a family that forced domesticity on the women, so I wonder why that was, and how they got on with only a single income. Her story is different even than some of the other codebreakers and computers in this and other books, in that she headed an entire department. This was not a worker drone, this was the Vice President, so to speak, who had job offers immediately upon closing the office after WWII.
One bit that was confusing to me was, it stated that they needed two incomes to send the kids to school, but that in 1946, she did not try at all to keep or get a job, but instead went back to domestic life. This was not a woman or a family that forced domesticity on the women, so I wonder why that was, and how they got on with only a single income. Her story is different even than some of the other codebreakers and computers in this and other books, in that she headed an entire department. This was not a worker drone, this was the Vice President, so to speak, who had job offers immediately upon closing the office after WWII.