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    <body><![CDATA[I can't honestly remember how I came across Moe Berg's name, but when I first heard about him, I was immediately intrigued. A Princeton graduate, a polyglot, a professional baseball player, and an American spy, Moe Berg seemed to have all the makings for an exciting biography.<br/><br/>Dawidoff's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41887808">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Moe Berg was a fascinatingly enigmatic figure, an intellectual jock, a publicly private man, a journeyman baseball player of the late 20s and 30s, an OSS spy during the Second World War, a lawyer who never practiced law, a talented linguist whose most characteristic gesture was to put a raised index...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12119850">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a little disappointed in this book.  The first part was good and the last part was great, but the middle part of his spy years was very dull.  I expected that would be my favorite part but there were way too many details and not enough of the 'human' part of it.  It took me a month to read whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74382729">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent biography of a most fascinating character, Morris &quot;Moe&quot; Berg who was a catcher for the White Sox, Senators, Red Sox AND a member of the World War II OSS, which disbanded but later reformed into the CIA (sans Mr Berg.) This book offers excellent insight into baseball in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73293939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating story of a mediocre major leaguer, whose  intelligence and personal style  as a secretive person fit him well as a spy in WW II. Yet all his quirks resulted in a lonely and sad life, in my opinion. Wonderfully written, engaging and objective and compassionate.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been wanting to read this book for years and finally got it done. I thought the story was well crafted and the pacing was good too. My biggest problem with this book was that Nicholas Dawidoff seemed, at countless points in the narrative, more interested in showing off his vast vocabulary than ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31694925">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks to my brother, Warren for giving me this book one Christmas.  The true and weird story of Moe Berg, journey-man catcher and CIA spy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting story about a weird dude. Pro baseball player, lawyer, spy, and maybe schitzophrenic (sp?).]]></body>
    
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