Ordeal by Slander
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1950. viii, 236 p.; 21 cm. Grey cloth with blue spine title and cover illustration. Green, black, and white dust jacket designed by Samuel C. Bryant. Stated First Edition. Printed bookplate of former owner Joan Hundley on front fixed endpaper. Pencilled notations on half title page and pencilled marginal notations through much of book. The author, Owen Lattimore (1900-1989), was an American scholar of China and Central Asia, an editor of Pacific Affairs, and a professor at Johns Hopkins University. During the Second World War he advised Chiang Kai-Shek and the United States government. Then in 1950, while he was in Afghanistan with the United Nations Technical Assistance Mission he learned that Senator Joseph McCarthy had said that he was a "top Russian espionage agent" in the United States. This is Lattimore's account of the following months as he battled the rush of unfounded public opinion. His ordeal continued through several years of hearings and reports; ultimately all the charges against him were dropped. In 1963 he went to England to set up the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds. Book is in Very Good- Conditon: lacking front free endpaper; notations as described above; otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fair+ Condition: lacking paper at spine ends; heavily chipped along top edge; small stain on front section; in mylar cover. Very Good - / fair +. Item #003192
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