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Title: Halie
Review: As an interpreter/teacher at Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry, CT, it was with great interest that I picked up this book. Nathan Hale is Connecticut's "official state hero", and has been frozen in time as "the patriot-martyr-spy of the American Revolution." Well, the Nathan Hale that I know and admire was a twenty-one-year old kid with a desire to do something important for his country. Kind of like kids serving in the war in Iraq. What I appreciate about The Once and Future Spy is Littel's depiction of Hale as a flesh and blood, passionate, adventurous young man. While this book may not be great history, and I don't necessarily believe in the accuracy of its speculation about Nathan's doomed spy mission, I do appreciate it for thawing out this frozen icon a little.
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