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Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China
by Newman, Robert P.
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- Comments: Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Small tear to jacket. Jacket slightly sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> "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, forci
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- ISBN-13: 9780520073883
- ISBN: 0520073886
- Publisher: University of California Press
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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 writingOwen 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 SchellNewman, Robert P. is the author of 'Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China' with ISBN 9780520073883 and ISBN 0520073886.
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