Who was Edgar Snow?
Mr. TYLER: Edgar Snow was the journalist who went, as a boy, from the middle of the–middle of America out to China in the ’30s, when the Chinese Civil War was going on, to make a name for himself, discovered journalism, and when he was sitting in Beijing realized that the Red Bandits and this fellow named Mao was living out there in caves in western China and Chiang Kia-shek was–was trying to murder him and bomb him into the–in–in–into submission. And he broke through the co–ordinance and snuck out there with an introductory–introductory letter from Sun Yat-sen wife, the–the modern founder of–of Chinese republicanism, and there he met Mao. And he gave the most amazing description of him as a figure of history. And, of course, Edgar Snow romanticized the–the Chinese Revolution to the extent that he was ostracized and criticized as someone who was co-opted by the Communists. And I think you have to give his journalism some credit. He did a lot of very good reporting. LAMB: But
