{"product_id":"edgar-snow-a-biography-9780807129128","title":"Edgar Snow: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdgar Snow (1905--1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade  no foreign reporter had seen the Communists  who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news  even to the Chinese  thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography  journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post  his ostracism during the cold war  and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author  this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789803315253,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807129127","price":53.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807129128.jpg?v=1784699516","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/edgar-snow-a-biography-9780807129128","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}