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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America

Kati Marton

Acclaimed journalist Kati Marton recounts her family’s harrowing history of being targeted by Communist operatives and her own father’s imprisonment as Cold War tensions ran high across Eastern Europe. Enemies of the People is a tour de force, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an award-winning journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her parents, as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends, colleagues, and even their children’s babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents and love.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: History -> HistoryAward Category: National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography -> BiographyFamily BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and AutobiographyMajor2009FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Kati Marton82%

  2. 02 Central places

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    • America55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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    Kati Marton’s family was targeted by Communist operatives, and secret police files and interviews reveal betrayals that together explain her parents’ imprisonment and her own search for them ending in a new beginning in America.

    Model confidence 52%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    38 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.