Right in Her Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strong

by Tracey B. Strong, Helene Keyssar

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Lai Tai-tai
Conspicuous Origins
Adolescence & the Kingdom of God of Earth
The Containment of Multitudes
A Glimmer on the Hills
Crossing the Bar
Two China Trips
Marking a Time & Place
Old Frontiers & New Deals
Lands Revisited
Yenan: The City on the Hill
Arrest in Russia
Putting Down Roots: Salvation or a Church
The Spirit of Yenan
The End of the Visit
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

418 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1984

Reviews

[Dennis Buckmaster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anna Louise Strong was a force to contend with and an exceptional influence from the 1910s into the 1970s. I don't even know where to start. Maybe he journalism of thousands of articles; authorship of dozens of books, hundreds of pamphlets and propaganda pieces; or, maybe her travels around the world, frequently under amazing conditions (crossing the Gobi Desert in the 1920s in a Buick); Or, her friendships (and sometimes romances) with world figures such as Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and hundreds of other famous and infamous characters from history.

On a personal level, Anna Louise and her father, Sydney Dix Strong, were personal friends and influence on the young Harriet Holbrook Smith, my wife's great aunt and a force of nature in her own right as illustrated in her letters home from China in the book, "Healing, Romance and Revolution."

Agree or disagree with Anna Louise Strong one learns much of history through her story.

[JerryDeanHalleck · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mediocre book about Anna Louise Strong, a famous American Journalist and Communist. Born in the 1880s, She spent most of the 20s and early 30s in the USSR, with numerous trips back to the USA to lecture and write books/articles pushing "The party line". She married an American Communist who worked for Stalin's Government. IN 1942, he died of disease in Moscow.

She returned to the USSR in 1944, and in 1946 returned to the USA to publish her book and lecture. The next 3 years were spent bouncing back and forth between the USSR, China, and the USA tilll she was expelled from the USSR in 1949. Its still not clear why Stalin kicked her out.

When back in the USA, she was denied a US passport until 1958. Upon its restoration, she moved to "Red China" and stayed there till her death in 1970.

She was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, and the two had private dinner in November 1939 to discuss politics, including the Nazi-Soviet pact.