Founding father Charlie Soong (1866-1918), thinks Seagrave-son of Burma doctor Gordon, author of Bitter Rain-became an inspirational legend (thanks to 1920s missionaries, Henry Luce, and Emily Hahn) without due note, by historians, of his part in financing Sun Yat-sen's aborted 1911 Revolution. More fabulous than fiction-because the sinister and shameless doings that Seagrave recounts, with kaleidoscopic historical detailing, involve the celebrated, idolized-and-reviled Soongs.
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