The Lives of Agnes Smedley

by Ruth Price and Ruth Price

Book Overview

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Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century's most fascinating women.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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514189X
• ISBN13: 9780195141894
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A life and a book I will never forget.....

Just finished reading THE LIVES OF AGNES SMEDLEY. What a tremendous achievement! I was moved, fascinated, inspired, and impressed by it. Every bit of the years of the research by author Price comes through. I knew nothing about the Chinese Revolution, yet the history is as vivid as Agnes Smedley's humanity - her hopes, joys, loves, despairs, fears, and most strikingly - her growth as a human being. It's a life and a book I will never forget.