The lives of Agnes Smedley [[electronic resource] /] / Ruth Price

• Autore: Price Ruth <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5209; B
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 20th century; Journalists - United States; Feminists - United States; Radicals - United States; Espionage, Soviet - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most fascinating women.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
• Titolo autorizzato: The lives of Agnes Smedley
• ISBN: 1-280-83512-5; 0-19-534386-7; 1-4294-6182-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784763203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II