Harold Robert Isaacs

Harold Robert Isaacs was an American journalist and political scientist. Born in 1910 in New York City, Harold Isaacs began his newspaper career covering church sermons for The New York Times while still a junior at Columbia College. He worked his way across the Pacific as a bellhop on a luxury liner and as a wiper in the engine room of a freighter. Isaacs went to China in 1930 and became involved with left wing politics in Shanghai and wrote …