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September 20th, 2005

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Must See BookTV

Those of you with an hour to spare should listen to Stephen Budiansky talk about his new book, Her Majesty’s Spymaster on C-Span/BookTV. The speech is available online here and you can listen using Real player. (EDIT: Link updated)

The book is about Sir Francis Walsingham, the first spymaster in Elizabethan England and the father of modern espionage tactics. He served as Queen Elizabeth I’s principle secretary and used his position to spy against Spain and France. To use my own words, the man is like the Machiavelli of intelligence. Budiansky shows how Walsingham introduced espionage to Britain using torture, double agents, assasinations, networking, rumor spreading, and more. Check it out.

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lane
September 20, 2005
5:37 am
You had my interest but your link let me down. I did a search and still couldn't find the title.
Curzon
September 20, 2005
5:41 am
BookTV sometimes goes down like that...

It's back up now; "this link is working.":http://www.booktv.org/history/index.asp?schedid=377&segid=6114
lane
September 20, 2005
5:50 am
Thanks, I googled it and found it here. Might be the same link you gave. Im off to listen.
Stygius
September 20, 2005
7:37 pm
Oh, man! Thank you, thank you. I've only ever been able to find one serious bio of Walsingham. Awesome
Younghusband
September 22, 2005
2:05 am
I saw this book in the store the other day, so this post was timely. I listened to the interview today and I think I will pick this book up sometime in the future... once I get through my hardcore reading lists at school!