The view from the ground

About this book

First published in 1959 but now offered in a revised and expanded edition The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorns ruminations on political civil and social issues and crises from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what is new and what remains the same in a country that is still off limits to most Americans. Gellhorns ability to get to the truth of a situation heard makes her writing transcend the short shelf life of most reportage.