1678 In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, by Theodore H. White (read 7 Dec 1981) This is the story of the author's life from 1915, when he was born, to 1963. It is a good book, though only journalism, and I am glad I read it. He graduated from Harvard in 1933 (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Wiley Mayne were classmates!) and went to China. He tells about his time there and the things he told about in Thunder Out of China (read by me 11 Jan 1947) and then of his time in Europe and of his time at Collier's and his time covering the Kennedy campaign. The book is episodic in a way, as autobiography tends to be, and I was not overly impressed. I suppose it is intended to be White's Personal History, a la Vincent Sheean, but my memory of that book--read when I was freshman in college--is that it was better. ( )

Theodore White was a journalist and historian who reported on Asia during the war and from Europe during reconstruction, then wrote the "Making of the President" series. In this book he mixes autobiography and history in an attempt to define the place of America in history. This book tells about Henry Luce, Time, Chang Chi Chek, Madame Chek, the chinese communist, the Japanese, and in Teddy White's wonderful jounalist style. ( )