Harrison Salisbury

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Salisbury, Harrison E(vans) (14 November 1908 - 5 July 1993)

Salisbury, an author and journalist, the first New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He wrote American in Russia (1955) and Behind the Lines—Hanoi (1967). His other books include Orbit of China (1967), War Between Russia and China (1969), The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969), Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 (1978), Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times (1980), Journey For Our Times (autobiographical, 1983), China: 100 Years of Revolution (1983), The Long March: The Untold Story (1985), Tianamen Diary: Thirteen Days in June (1989), The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng (1992), and his last, Heroes of My Time (1993).

In 1992, asked about various connotations of humanism, Salisbury responded:

If I have to be categorized, put me in Class One [“to the lexicographer, a term denoting devotion to human interests as well as one referring to the study of the humanities”]. I have no relationship to humanism as a religion or sect. I simply fit, I think, your definition. I try to have a regard for my fellow human beings, I try to have sympathy for the mixed bag of the human condition, and I try to keep my fellow man in mind when I am acting or writing. If not, I would declare out of the human race, of which I have no intention. It is always surprising to me to find people who seem to regard the human race as a Party of One.

{WAS, 9 July 1992}