Franklin Library: Signed 60: Theodore White: WW II

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Franklin Library: Signed: Theodore White: In Search of History: A Personal Adventure Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Theodore White's "In Search of History: A Personal Adventure," a Limited edition, PERSONALLY SIGNED by THEODORE WHITE, Signature protected by onion skin tissue, one of the 60 SIGNED edition series, published in 1980. Bound in a Spectacular navy blue Moroccan cowhide, the book has matching French moire silk endleaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, 22 kt. gold gilding---in near FINE condition. Theodore Harold White, who lived from 1915- 1986, was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his acclaimed accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. Born May 6, 1915, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a Jewish lawyer, White received a scholarship to Harvard in 1934, based upon his academic achievements at the famous Boston Latin high school, which he graduated from in 1932. White graduated from Harvard in 1938, with a degree in Chinese history. White was awarded a Harvard travel fellowship upon graduation in 1938. He traveled to EUROPE but was given a job in Chiang K'ai-shek's CHINA, flying into Chungking in 1939. To White's amazement, he could NOT speak Chinese---but White quickly learned the language and his insight into CHINA was one read more

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