"These selected writings by the leader of a country with which the United States is now engaged in a bitter if undeclared war . . . range in time from 1920, when Ho was an unknown photographer's assistant, to 1966 ... in style from in- spired 'big lie' propaganda to delicate poetry . . . in subject matter from the Ku Klux Klan to Leninism, to Wendell Wilkie, to Dienbienphu, to a game of chess . . . Despite the fact that much of this material was written under the harried conditions of imprisonment or revolutionary activity, the style throughout is vivid, and the insights are those of an ex- ceptional man . . ."—Kirkus Service