Lyons Eugene Ed 1898 1985 (1 results)
Published by NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn, 8vo black cloth boards; The text block is in near fine condition with no dogears, tears, or marks. The pages are age-tanned and deckle-edged. The editor's inscription on the ffep includes the name of the recipient of the book Walter Doney and the date Dec. 6, 1936,… inscribed by Eugene Lyons; NB: this title is correct as given, but when the book was actually publ for the trade, the title was altered to "We Cover the World by Fifteen Foreign Correspondents. Edited by Eugene Lyons.", so this copy must have been a prepubl one that Lyons signed for for Walter Doney, Ow VG/ndj: viii+441pp, no index, no bibl, [Contents] WE COVER THE WORLD: An Introduction (Eugene Lyons), SCOOP-HUNTING AROUND THE WORLD (James A. Mills), THE SKY'S THE LIMIT (Karl von Wiegand), I CAPTURE VLADIVOSTOK (Frazier Hunt), THE RAPE OF ETHIOPIA (Linton Wells), INDIAN HATE LYRIC (Negley Farson), TEN YEARS IN THE ORIENT (Hallett Abend), DO DICTATORS DIE IN BED? (Junius B. Wood), MY RUSSIAN EDUCATION (William Henry Chamberlin), NATIONS IN STRAITJACKETS (George Seldes), GIRL REPORTER IN PARIS (Mary Knight), ONE MUST KNOW JAPAN (Frank H. Hedges), CHINA IN REVOLT (Randall Gould), MEXICO: LAND OF MANANA (Jack Starr-Hunt), A REPORTER ALOFT (H. R. Ekins), PERSIAN INTERLUDE (Eugene Lyons), THE LITTLE WORLD WAR IN SPAIN (Webb Miller). Eugene Lyons (1898-1985) was an American journalist and writer. A fellow traveler of Communism in his younger years, Lyons became highly critical of the Soviet Union after several years there as a correspondent of United Press International. Lyons also wrote a biography of President Herbert Hoover. Eugene Lyons was born July 1, 1898, to a Jewish family in the town of Uzlyany, now part of Belarus but then part of the Russian Empire. His parents emigrated to the US, and he grew up among the teeming tenements of the Lower East Side of New York City. "I thought myself a 'socialist' almost as soon as I thought at all," Lyons recalled in his memoirs. As a youth he attended a Socialist Sunday School on East Broadway, where he sang Socialist hymns such as "The Internationale" and "The Red Flag." Lyons worked for the Workers Defense Union for some time and composed news releases for the Socialist daily newspaper New York Call and other left-wing publications In the fall of 1920, with revolution in the wind in Italy and dreaming of becoming the next John Reed, Lyons made his way to Naples and bore credentials of the Federated Press news service and the monthly magazine The Liberator. Lyons's Italian experiences were later put to use in his first book, The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti, which was published in 1927 by the Communist-affiliated International Publishers in which he argued the case for the pair's innocence. Lyons became a correspondent for the Soviet news agency TASS. Lyons' work for TASS led to his becoming the United Press (UP) correspondent in Moscow [Wikipedia]. Signed by Author(s).