A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings 1917-1950 (signed first edition)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 557 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. In this, the first volume of his long-awaited memoirs, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007), historian, social critic and winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House", turns his acute historian's eye on his own past. His story is ultimately the captivating history of America coming into its own as a world power. A child of the Midwest, Schlesinger recalls the America of the Twenties, student days at Harvard, Cambridge University in the twilight years between the Munich Pact and World War II, the bitter debate in the U.S. in the months before pearl Harbor, a stint overseas with the OSS, and more. Fine / fine. Item #WE30623
ISBN: 9780395707524
Price: $42.00