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The Lives of Agnes Smedley
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(Tue May 28 13:26:21 2024) | Biblio | Charity Bookstall | Oxford: Oxford University Press, Date: 2005. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 498 pages including index and with a few black and white photographs From jacket: "Was she a selfless political activist? A feminist heroine? A gifted writer who rose from poverty to become a leading journalist and author of the cult classic Daughter of Earth? A spy for the Soviet Union? Or all of these things? Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most fascinating women. (The author) traces Agnes Smedley's unlikely trajectory from a small Missouri town to the coal country of Colorado; to Berkeley and Greenwich Village; to Berlin, Moscow, and China. Fueled by a fury at injustice, Smedley threw herself headlong into the crucial issues of the time, from Indian independence to birth control, women's rights, and the revolution in China... Perhaps most important, (the author) uncovers an astonishing truth: Smedley, long thought to be the unfair target of a Cold War smear campaign, was indeed guilty of the espionage charges leveled against her by General Douglas MacArthur and others." Ex-library with typical treatments. Mylar cover has been removed. Light wear to jacket, bumped head and heel of spine of jacket and book, first two pages and page 33 are creased, light soil to outside pages. The photograph on the front cover is unretouched, the jacket is not soiled. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 019514189X 9780195141894 [US] |
