<strong>Honorable Survivor</strong> weaves John S. Services extraordinary story into the fabricof a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending... » 

Honorable Survivor weaves John S. Services extraordinary story into the fabricof a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending the Cold Warwas dawning and the McCarthy era witchhunters were stirring. The book revealshow people policy and politics mix to create the circumstances of our livesand the experiences of one man who came to be at the center of a series ofextraordinary events involving the fate of nations. This biography chroniclesthe experiences of John S. Service. Emmy awardwinning journalist Lynne Joinertells the tale of Service an idealistic U.S. Foreign Service officer inwartime China who had the misfortune of often being right although U.S.policymakers refused to heed his prescient reporting. He predicted Mao Tsetungs successful revolution long before anyone else even knew the ChineseCommunists were a potent force and subsequently became Joseph McCarthys firstvictim. «