THE LIVES OF AGNES SMEDLEY

Book ID/图书代码： 10080105B00188

English Summary/英文概要： Was she a selfless political activist? A feminist heroine? A gifted writer who rose from poverty to become a leading journalist and author of the cult classic Daughter of Earth? A spy for the Soviet Union? Or all of these things? Drawing on fifteen years of intensive research and unprecedented access to previously unpublished documents, this vibrant book brings to life one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating women. Ruth Price traces Agnes Smedley’s unlikely trajectory from a small Missouri town to the coal country of Colorado; to Berkeley and Greenwich Village; to Berlin, Moscow, and China. Fueled by a fury at injustice, Smedley threw herself headlong into the crucial issues of the time, from Indian independence to birth control, women’s rights, and the revolution in China. Her friends included such figures as Margaret Sanger, Langston Hughes, Emma Goldman, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mao Zedong, and many others. Perhaps most important, Price uncovers an astonishing truth: Smedley, long thought to be the unfair target of a Cold War smear campaign, was indeed guilty of the espionage charges leveled against her by General Douglas MacArthur and others. Smedley worked to foment armed revolution in India and gathered intelligence for the Soviet Union, seeing it as a bulwark against fascism. Price argues that Smedley acted out of a passionate idealism and that she exhibited a courage and compassion worthy of a renewed, if more complicated, admiration today. Epic in scope, painstakingly researched, and unflinchingly honest, The Lives of Agnes Smedley offers a stunning reappraisal of one of America’s most controversial Leftists and a new look at the troubled historical terrain of the first half of the twentieth century.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 她是自私自利的政治积极分子，还是声张女权主义的英雄，亦或者是出身贫寒、后成长为首屈一指的记者、撰写过风靡一时的经典之作------《地球女儿》的天才作家，更或者是苏维埃的间谍？或者上面这几个身份，她都有呢？ 《艾格尼茨·史沫特莱》历经15年的呕心研究，翻阅了无数过去尚未出版过的案卷资料，把这位二十世纪最有魅力的女人栩栩如生的展现在世人面前。RUTH PRICE对艾格尼茨·史沫特莱那不可思议的人生轨迹追本求源，她如何从密苏里州的一个偏僻小镇走出来闯天下，来到了科罗拉多州，展转至柏克莱和格林威治村，再到柏林、莫斯科和中国。义愤填膺的史沫特莱抑制不住满腔热血，不顾一切地投身实事革命中，从印地安独立到计划生育、女权运动再到中国如火如荼进行的革命运动。和她交往过的朋友有：桑格夫人、兰斯敦·休斯、艾玛·戈德曼、贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁甚至还有毛主席。当然最重要的还是，RUTH PRICE向我们揭露了一个惊人的内幕，长期以来，我们一直都认为，冷战期间史沫特莱被道格拉斯-麦克阿瑟等人指控在搞间谍活动纯属诽谤和谣言诬蔑，而事实上，她的确就是个间谍。Smedley跑到印度，到那煽风点火，搞武装革命；为苏维埃收集情报，而她觉得这是防止法西斯的壁垒。PRICE还说到了她这样做也完全出于强烈的完美主义观念，而且他所表现出的勇气和怜悯心绝对值得当代人的敬佩，即使这样的敬佩没那么单纯。 《艾格尼茨·史沫特莱》规模宏大，历经千心万苦的研究调查，以事实为依据，从全新视角评估这位美国最有争议的左派分子，也重新审视了二十世纪上半叶那段动荡的历史。

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