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Impatient Giant, Red China Today by Clark, Gerald
NY: David McKay Co., 1959 NEAR-FINE/VERY GOOD First Edition. A very handsome 1st printing. Crimson boards nearly perfect, previous owner's markings on endpaper, all else as-new. Unclipped DJ has a few short closed tears. 5.75" by 8.25", 212 pristine pages, two sections of glossy b&w photographs. - - - Famous Canadian journalist and Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Montreal Star newspaper, Gerald Clark, writes about life behind the 'bamboo curtain' in Red China in the 1950's. At the time, he was one of only a handful of journalists from the West allowed to visit. Clark documents the greatest social transformation of the 20th century, the leadership of Mao Tse-tung, education, agriculture, science, prisons, medicine, women, and the military. The author was co-writer and narrator of CBS's "The Face of Red China", which won the Emmy and Sylvania Awards for the best TV documentary of 1958. . Hardcover with Dust-Jacket.
- Bookseller: Bruce McLeod
 (CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 002687
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: David McKay Co.
- Place: NY
- Date published: 1959
- Keywords: Clark, Gerald Impatient Giant, Red China Today Renowned Canadian journalist and Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Montreal Star newspaper, Gerald Clark, writes about life behind the \'bamboo curtain\' in Red China in the 1950\'s. At the time, he was o
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