Right in her soul : the life of Anna Louise Strong / by Tracy B. Strong and Helene Keyssar.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 377-382) and index.

Lao Tai-tai -- Conspicuous origins -- Adolescence and the kingdom of God on earth -- The containment of multitudes -- A glimmer on the hills -- Crossing the bar -- Two china trips -- Marking a time and place -- Old frontiers and New Deals -- Lands revisited -- Yenan: the city in the hill -- Arrest in Russia -- Putting down roots: salvation or aa church -- The spirit of Yenan --The ends of the visit --

"Descended on both sides from some of the oldest and most distinguished families in America. Anna Louise Strong was born in 1885 in a two-room parsonage in Friend, Nebraska, where her father was minister. She died in 1970 in Peking, China, and was buried with full honors in the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery. In the important span of years that her life encompassed, she was one of the more colorful characters and the most remarkable women that this country has produced. She knew everyone - Big Bill Haywood, Roger Baldwin, Kane Addams, "Mother" Ella Bloor, Emma Goldman, Max Eastman, FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, Trotsky, Stalin, Litvinov, Borodin, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai - and she went everywhere. She worked with the Wobblies on the West Coast when she was still in her twenties, and she marched with revolutionary armies in Russia, Mexico, Spain, and China. She taught Trotsky English, and she conducted the interview in which Mao first conducted the interview in which Mao first used the term "paper tiger" - a circumstance that led to her becoming famous all over China as the "paper tiger lady". She was accused the the Russians of being an American spy, and by the FBI of being a Soviet spy. Actually she was neither. She was a peculiarly American Revolutionary, and the millions of words that she wrote as a journalist were all to she her fellow Americans the "truth about what was going on in the world. Passionate, indefatigable and sometimes impatient with the opinions of others, she was nonetheless dedicated to the cause of humanity and the betterment of the world. In writing about Anna Louise and the turbulent timers in which she lived, her great-nephew Tracy B. Strong and he wife Helene Keyssar drew on family papers, personal letters, and Louise's published and unpublished works, reminiscences of those who knew her, material about her in the archives of the Peoples Republic of China and the extensive FBI files on her. The result is a remarkable re-creation, not only of Anna Louise herself but of a significant period in American and world history." -From dust jacket.