Although Keyes Beech`s book contains many serious economic and political analyses, its chief charm lies in its lively insights and anecdotes about personalitie and peoples. ... His view about American`s ambassadors are especially enlightening. ... In his more than twenty years in the Orient, he has formed many warm personal friendship, from the peasant to the plenipotentiary, from rickshaw pullers to princes and prime ministers. (Publisher info). - Edges minimally browned, else a fine copy.