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In search of history : a personal adventure / Theodore H. White.
LIBRA PN4874.W517 A34
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Theodore H. (Theodore Harold), 1915-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White, Theodore H. (Theodore Harold), 1915-1986.
- White, Theodore H.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 561 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; San Francisco ; London : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1978]
- Contents:
- Prologue The Storyteller
- Part One-Boston: 1915-1938. Exercise in Recollection
- Part Two-Asia: 1938-1945. The Sightseer. China: war and resistance; Reporter in Asia: episode and personality; Stilwell: jockey to a dying horse; Yenan: takeoff for the revolution; The politics of victory: Asia
- Part Three-Europe: 1945-1953. Reporter in Transition. The Marshall Plan: springtime in a new world; The politics of victory: Europe
- Part Four-America: 1954-1963. The Homecomer. The Fifties: incubating the storm. The Outsider. John F. Kennedy: opening the gates; Camelot
- Epilogue Outward bound.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- "Designed by C. Linda Dingler."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".
- ISBN:
- 0060145994 :
- OCLC:
- 3870213
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