Don Whitehead (1908–1981)
Autore di La storia dello FBI
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Sélection du Reader's Digest
Opere di Don Whitehead
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1908-04-08
- Data di morte
- 1981-01-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Inman, Virginia, USA (birth)
- Istruzione
- University of Kentucky
- Attività lavorative
- reporter
columnist - Organizzazioni
- Associated Press
New York Herald Tribune
Knoxville News Sentinel - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1951)
Pulitzer Prize (National Reporting, 1953)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 223
- Popolarità
- #100,550
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
- Lingue
- 1
This book was written during the Cold War, and was published in the late 50's, when the Red Scare had not yet cooled and given way to more clear thinking and sense, so the last few chapters on the horrific dangers of communism (and I suspect that Whitehead did not really understand the socioeconomic theory of communism at all, just the Russian and Chinese Communist party activities) make sense, even if it is hard to imagine being that scared of communism now. But, substitute 'Islam' for 'communism' in his concluding chapters and they read like the phobic nonsense behind recent anti-Islamic sentiments.… (altro)