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1951
THE CHINA STORY
Freda Utley
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THE CHINA STORY

by Freda Utley

Henry Regnery Company · 2017

Peak rank

#6

Weeks on list

15

Debuted

June 1951

Chart History

#1510151951
dashed = off the list

15 weeks on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, peaking at #6

First published in 1951, this book details Utley's view on America's handling of the situation in China at the time led to Communist victories. It went on to become a national bestseller, and a milestone in exhibiting how Third World gains by the Communists were helped and facilitated in Washington. It inspired hope in many foreign lands that Communist takeovers were neither indigenous nor "inevitable," as was often claimed in the 1940's. "I have read your book and commend it to those who are interested in knowing the truth......"—General Douglas MacArthur "[Utley combines] the keenest and most comprehensive intellectual understanding with deep and sincere emotion.... [they] hold the reader's attention as intensely as a great novel."—Bertrand Russell, 1950 Nobel Prize winner Author Freda Utley (1898-1978) was one of the key witnesses against Lattimore in the Tydings Committee investigation (1950) of Senator Joseph McCarthy's charges of communist influence in the U. S. State Department.

All Appearances

15NEWJune 3, 1951wk 1
8↑7June 10, 1951wk 2
7↑1June 17, 1951wk 3
6↑1June 24, 1951wk 4
6July 1, 1951wk 5
7↓1July 8, 1951wk 6
8↓1July 15, 1951wk 7
9↓1July 29, 1951wk 9
8↑1August 12, 1951wk 11

Details

ISBN-13
9781787205116
ISBN-10
1787205118
Published
2017
Pages
393
Publisher
Henry Regnery Company
Categories
History

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