[America Revealed] Amerika o ratai ni su

Kiyosawa, Kiyoshi

Publication: Tokyo: Chigura Shoga, 1930 (Showa 4). First Edition.

Notes: This book offers a former immigrant's observations on American society written during a 15-month tour of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression. Kiyosawa writes about cars, unemployment and the unemployed, crime in Chicago, race relations, and lynchings, among many other topics.

Kiyosawa Kiyoshi (1890–1945) is best-known for the wartime journals he kept in Japan, published in English translation as Diary of Darkness (Princeton University Press, 1999). Prior to the war, he was one of the best-known liberal experts on the United States. He emigrated to America at age 16 and stayed through the First World War. He studied at Whitworth College and the University of Washington and worked as a journalist for Japanese-language newspapers on the West Coast.

[2], 5, [1], 12, 370, [8] pages.

OCLC: 44420144 (Columbia, Colorado); 673268693 (second printing, National Diet Library)

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorative printed cloth. Probably lacking a dust jacket.