"This exhaustively well-researched, lucidly written, and fascinating book on Owen Lattimore and the anti-Communist witchhunts in the late forties and early fifties chronicles a double American tragedy. Not only does it recount how careers of good and brilliant men were blindly destroyed, but how America was deprived of its most thoughtful and clear-headed China specialists. By writing "Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China," Robert P. Newman has made a giant step toward setting right this sorry chapter of U.S. history."- ...
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"This exhaustively well-researched, lucidly written, and fascinating book on Owen Lattimore and the anti-Communist witchhunts in the late forties and early fifties chronicles a double American tragedy. Not only does it recount how careers of good and brilliant men were blindly destroyed, but how America was deprived of its most thoughtful and clear-headed China specialists. By writing "Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China," Robert P. Newman has made a giant step toward setting right this sorry chapter of U.S. history."--Orville Schell
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0520073886. Slight edge rubbing, in like DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. This distinguished China scholar at Johns Hopkins was the victim of virulent witch hunts, starting with McCarthy in 1950, as one of the people that "lost" China to communism.; Philip E. Lilienthal Books; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 685 pages.
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GOOD+. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 6X9. Light shelf wear, Dj is lightly rubbed, book plate on front inner board, unmarked text, pages crisp and clean, good binding _PAB_
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Like New. Size: 9x5x2; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Small tear to jacket. Jacket slightly sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. "In March 1950 Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, a distinguished China scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, of being 'the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S. ' The Senate Foreign Relations Committee exonerated Lattimore four months later, but for the next two years Pat McCarran and his Senate Internal Security Committee investigated him, forcing the Justice Department to indict him for perjury. The case was eventually dismissed, but only after extraordinary efforts by the FBI failed to unearth a single reliable witness who could testify against Lattimore."-University of California Press.
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