In 1949 Bette Bao Lord and her family were stranded in the United States when Mao Zedong and his communist rebels won the civil war in China.
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In addition to chairing Freedom House, Ms. Lord has served on many other boards including the Newseum, The Freedom Forum, the International Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Council on Foreign Relations and WNET.
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In this book she describes her efforts to learn English and to become accepted by her classmates and how she succeeds with the help of baseball and Jackie Robinson.
Bette Bao Lord, human rights activist, China scholar and novelist.
Lord is married in 1963 to best selling author and human rights activist Bette Bao Lord and has two children, Elizabeth Pillsbury and Winston Bao.
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