MEMBER BLOG TAG: stealing fire
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:14PM | | | | From, Stealing Fire | Tags: Manhattan Project, Atomic Espionage, Saville Sax, Stealing Fire, James Baldwin
| | | The following is an excerpt from my memoir Stealing Fire: A Childhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage to be published in late 2008 by Ad Infinitum Press. I recount how my father Saville (or “Savy”) Sax became a spy for the Russians at the Manhattan Project, and how the practical and psychological consequences of espionage affected his childhood. Bluma Sax is the mother of Saville and my grandmother. She had emigrated with her husband from what is now the Ukraine at the end of the nineteenth century and become a Communist. Boria Sax
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