My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy - Softcover

Lee, Wen Ho; Zia, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786886870 ISBN 13: 9780786886876

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2003

Synopsis

Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, devoted most of his life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then, in January of 1999, everything changed and he was accused of espionage by members of Congress and portrayed as the most dangerous traitor since the Rosenbergs. He was even told that their fate--execution--might well be his own. For the first time, Dr. Wen Ho Lee chronicles his experiences before, during, and after his imprisonment. He takes you inside Los Alamos, describes the false charges leveled against him, and tells how his career and life were threatened and his civil rights taken away. A riveting true story about prejudice, suspicion, and courage, My Country Versus Me is a vitally important book for our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Wen Ho Lee lives with his wife in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Helen Zia, an award-winning journalist and author of Asian American Dreams, has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for more than twenty years. Born in New Jersey and a graduate of Princeton's first co-educational class, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

From AudioFile:

Dr. Lee is angry with the U.S. government for arresting, incarcerating, and trying him for espionage. Using an accent mimicking the author's native Taiwanese, Fred Stella clearly expresses Lee's anger. The book's language reflects the mixture of sophistication and slang one finds in educated nonnative speakers of English, making a convincing performance of Lee's exculpatory account of his ordeal at the hands of a system he claims suspected him because of his Asian background. Stella utilizes nonaccented speech for the other principals to illuminate this scientist's protest. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786886870
• ISBN 13: 9780786886876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352