





THE CHINA STORY
by Freda Utley · Henry Regnery Company
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.

CABLE CAR CARNIVAL
by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg · Grahame Hardy
Historical treatise on the San Francisco cable cars. (JVL).

TOTAL EMPIRE
by Edmund A. Walsh · Bruce Publishing Co
Walsh served as consultant at Nuremberg and became acquainted among others with General Haushofer, of whom he writes understandingly. He analyzes some of the revelations of the seized German documents, and in conclusion draws a parallel between the power hunger of the Nazis and that of the Kremlin. -- Description in Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com (Jan. 9, 2013).
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.