Name Harold Isaacs | Role Journalist | |
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Died July 9, 1986, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Books The Tragedy of the Chine, Scratches on Our Minds, Idols of the tribe, Re‑encounters in China, No peace for Asia | ||
Gsw celebrates professor emeritus dr harold isaacs
Harold Robert Isaacs (1910–1986) was an American journalist and political scientist. Isaacs went to China in 1930 and became involved with left wing politics in Shanghai and wrote The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, about the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27, first published with a preface by Leon Trotsky. He covered World War II in Southeast Asia and China for Newsweek Magazine. In 1953 he joined the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the following years he published Scratches on our Minds: American Images of China and India, American Jews in Israel, and The New World of Negro Americans, among others. In 1980, he returned to China with his wife, Viola, and wrote an account of the visit, Re-Encounters in China.
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- Gsw celebrates professor emeritus dr harold isaacs
- Harold Isaacs Golda Meir
- Selected articles and works
- References
In 1950, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He and his wife had two children, the journalist Arnold R. Isaacs and Deborah Shipler.