![]() Elizebeth's accomplishments were forgotten in part because she was the loving wife of William Friedman, a brilliant cryptanalyst in his own right. The Woman Who Smashed Codes is the story of Elizebeth Friedman, the mother of modern cryptoanalysis and cryptography. Each of these books reveals the true identities of patriots whose accomplishments would have been lost to time or attributed to others if not for the determination of their authors. Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes now adds to this list of volumes that give credit where it was long due. military, and Hidden Figures, the story of four African-American female mathematicians in the NASA space program. ![]() ![]() How many hidden figures have existed throughout America's national security history? How many patriots relinquished their claims to glory because their gender, skin color, sexual orientation, or another element of their identities prevented them from earning credit for their lives' work? These are questions that confront readers of books like Conduct Unbecoming, a two-hundred year history of gay and lesbian members of the U.S. ![]()
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