num_pages: 592
description: 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 StorytellerBoston: 1915-38Asia: 1938-45 Europe: 1948-53 America: 1954-63Epilogue: Outward BoundAcknowledgmentsIndex
language: English
title: In Search Of History: A Personal Adventure
titlecomplete: In Search Of History: A Personal Adventure
characters: Henry Luce, Theodore H. White
genres: Biography, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, China, American History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 490
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Paperback)
publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.