National Post "Invincible Quest" Excerpt 1

Canada's National Post is running five excerpts from The Invincible Quest this week, starting today. The first excerpt is about Alger Hiss and the Pumpkin Papers. My favorite part:

Nixon met a huge scrum of journalists on the morning of Dec. 6. From this session came the famous pictures of Nixon looking at the microfilm recovered from the pumpkin. Unfortunately, no journalist had the presence of mind to bring a pumpkin and add it as a prop, though the pictures were hokey enough as it was. Some of them showed Nixon with a magnifying glass, like Sherlock Holmes, squinting at the film (which would have been ineffectual, because the film could not be read without a projector).