Harold Isaacs
Harold Robert Isaacs (born September 13, 1910 in New York City , † July 9, 1986 in Boston ) was an American journalist and political scientist .
Life
Isaacs grew up as the son of a real estate tycoon of Jewish-Lithuanian origin in Manhattan . Among other things, he studied French and philosophy at Columbia University . Influenced by the social reformer Norman Thomas , the historian Parker T. Moon and the China correspondent Thomas F. Millard , he began a trip to the Far East in 1930. He became involved in the political left in Shanghai and wrote the book The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution , about the second Chinese revolution from 1925 to 1927. The first edition appeared in 1938 with a foreword by Leon Trotsky .
During World War II he reported from China and Southeast Asia for Newsweek Magazine . From 1953 to 1976 he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of political science. In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1980 he returned to China again and published a report on the trip.
His son Arnold R. Isaacs was a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun during the Vietnam War .
Works
- Harold R. Isaacs: The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution , Mehring Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-88634-109-2 . Foreword by the publisher
literature
- Matthias Messmer: China: Scenes of West-Eastern Encounters , Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77594-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harold Isaacs , U.S. Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed June 16, 2017
- ↑ http://d-nb.info/gnd/111852750X
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Isaacs, Harold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isaacs, Harold Robert; Isaacs, Harold R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1986 |
| Place of death | Boston |