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In Search of History

Theodore White's autobiography is the story of a man who literally covered the world, who understood that world and wrote about it brilliantly. This is a marvelous rags-to-riches autobiography, thoughtful, dramatic and funny, filled with perceptive details about events and personalities. In his parade of people and events, we meet Douglas MacArthur, both as outcast and conqueror; listen to a troubled Eisenhower preparing to lay aside his uniform and plunge into politics; visit Mao Tse-tung in his cave in Henan; and trace the power-curve of America's greatness across the glory years at home and abroad.

Prologue: The Storyteller

Boston: 1915-38

Asia: 1938-45

Europe: 1948-53

America: 1954-63

Epilogue: Outward Bound

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 720
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780446308144
  • Characters
  • Henry Luce, Theodore H. White
  • Genres
  • history, memoir, biography, politics, autobiography, journalism, china
  • Release date
  • 1983