Annalee Whitmore Fadiman (1916–2002)
Autor de Thunder Out of China
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- Nombre canónico
- Fadiman, Annalee Whitmore
- Otros nombres
- Whitmore, Annalee (birth)
Fadiman, Annalee Jacoby - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1916-05-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2002-02-05
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Price, Utah, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Captiva, Florida, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- suicide
- Educación
- Stanford University (BA|1937)
- Ocupaciones
- scriptwriter
war correspondent - Relaciones
- Fadiman, Clifton (husband)
Fadiman, Anne (daughter) - Organizaciones
- MGM
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- 1
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- 1
- Miembros
- 246
- Popularidad
- #92,613
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 4
I read this book at the same time as [b:The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion|11324722|The Righteous Mind Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion|Jonathan Haidt|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1351393217s/11324722.jpg|16252969]. They both deal with politics and reading them at the same time I made a lot of connections that I might not have otherwise gotten.
There is a lot of history in here, and although it painted a very different picture than I had ever heard before, it felt credible. As I got into the last chapter or two, it began to feel more like a position paper. Unfortunately, the warning wasn't enough.
Written more than 50 years ago, the blunders described in here are common throughout history, and thus this book is still meaningful. I was impressed with the depth and to a lesser extent the breadth of coverage of China starting within the time of WWII, and continuing until about a year after Japan surrendered. I had hoped to learn how the Communists came to power, but as of the end of the book, it was about an equal match between them and the old government. I looked up what happened, and learned a little about what happened after the end of the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
I have long wondered how the Chinese went from a millennium of being perhaps the greatest power on the earth to being a backward country. This book didn't directly address that question, but from having read it, I now have an intriguing piece of the puzzle filled in.
It gave enough information that now I have a rudimemtary understanding of why the Communists came into power. The abuse of the people was a continual scene throughout the book. Before reading this, I had little love for Communists and thought that Chiang Kai-shek was a "good guy". Now I have a much better feel for why the people found them attractive. Chiang Kai-shek had one "good" trait in that he was violently anti-Communist. On the other hand as an oppressive dictator who tolerated graft and corruption, he did not alleviate the suffering of the people. "Believing that corruption and a lack of morals were key reasons that the KMT lost mainland China to the Communists, Chiang attempted to purge corruption by dismissing members of the KMT accused of graft." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek)
If a person read and understood this book, they would have a good idea what not to do. Doing things right is a lot harder task, but understanding history is a good start.
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