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The lives of Agnes Smedley / Ruth Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Ruth, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Radicals--United States--Biography.
- Radicals.
- Espionage, Soviet--United States.
- Espionage, Soviet.
- Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950.
- Smedley, Agnes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (513 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most fascinating women. Ruth Price 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Spelling; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Beginnings; 2 Emergence as a Radical; 3 Indian Activism in Greenwich Village; 4 Moscow Beckons; 5 Love and Pain in Berlin; 6 Becoming a Writer; 7 Bend in the Road; 8 Comintern Agent in China; 9 Richard Sorge and the GRU; 10 Cloak and Dagger in Shanghai; 11 A Fissure Opens; 12 An Unruly Agent; 13 Mutiny in Sian; 14 Calamity Jane of the Chinese Revolution; 15 Selfless for the Cause; 16 Back in the U.S.A.; 17 The Cold War; 18 Exile; Epilogue; A Note on Sources and Citations; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-83512-5
- 0-19-534386-7
- 1-4294-6182-9
- OCLC:
- 476259048
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