I have read “Double Lives” and given it to several people. It is a great book - showing that an agent of influence like Munzenberg is a thousand time more dangerous than a spy.
Excellent Kabumpo! I have as well, and every one I've given it to has told me that they were affected by it.
I must give credit to another writer named Kent Clizbe. He's a former CIA officer who wrote a good book titled Willing Accomplices, and with whom I exchanged a few e-mails. Prior to reading his book, all I knew about Munzenberg was from a book titled The Red Millionaire by Sean McMeekin which (in Clizbe's words) was little more than a biographical time-line. I agree with him, and wouldn't recommend that book. Clizbe's book and my subsequent correspondence with him revealed to me that there was much much more to learn about Munzenberg. It was also his book's references that compelled me to read Double Lives. What I learned about Alexander Gumberg, George S. Counts and the Teachers College at Columbia University alone made Willing Accomplices worthwhile for me.