Franklin Library: SIGNED: HARRISON SALISBURY: LIFE IN 20TH CENTURY

Description: Franklin library leather edition of Harrison Salisbury's "A Time of Change," Frontispiece Portrait of Harrison Salisbury by Ronald De Felice, a First edition, PERSONALLY SIGNED by HARRISON SALISBURY, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1988. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for minor 'foxing' on gilt on fore edge. Harrison Evans Salisbury, who lived from 1908 – 1993, was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in MOSCOW after World War II. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated from University of Minnesota in 1930. He spent nearly 20 years with United Press (UP), much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II. He joined the NEW YORK TIMES in 1949 and became their Moscow correspondent, traveling widely in Siberia, Central Asia and Outer Mongolia along China's borders. In a 'special message,' Salisbury wrote: "The world into which I was born was a Victorian world. In 1908 Queen Victoria had been dead for seven years but she still reigned in the gabled house kept by my father in Minneapolis. . ." "I have spent quote a lot of time on the fission lines of our day---wartime Europe, the Middle East, Russia, China, Southeast Asia, and the barricades of our own America in the 1960s. We have come to think of Russia as a country invented by Lenin and perfected by Stalin but Russia was Russia for hundreds of years before 1917. Russian imperialism was invented by the Czars, not the commissars. Stalin's ikons were Ivan the Dread, Peter the Great, and Nicholas I. Mao Zedong slept in the same Ming Palace as did his predecessors. Salisbury has traveled the globe, earning a reputation as a tough and knowledgeable journalist. He was awarded the PULITZER PRIZE for International Reporting in 1955 and was nominated for a second Pulitzer in 1967 for his hard-hitting reports from Hanoi during the VIETNAM WAR. Salisbury knew every president since DWIGHT EISENHOWER, and met with heads of state of CHINA and the SOVIET UNION. He and his wife trekked the Long March, retracing the 1934-35 Mao Zedong 'Long March,' a 6,000-mile journey. RONALD REAGAN was making his first trip to CHINA, and "I knew that many Chinese were excited about the President's visit." "Reagan left a strong impact on Xi'an, and as I later found, in Bejing as well." Later Salisbury wrote: "I was in Moscow after the Summit at Genea in 1985. One of Mr. Gorbachev's close aides invited me to his office. He was walking on air over the Gorbachev-Reagan meeting. . .I did not meet Reagan until 1985 when I was twice invited to the White House. In the last chapter, Salisbury describes spending Christmas 1985 in Florence, Italy, where the "streets were awash with people, young, old, rich, poor, gay, and serious . . .At the Uffizi, I stood "intoxicated, my eyes brimming with joy, my mind in turmoil . . ." Folks, Salisbury knew many of the "shakers and movers" of the 20th century. 354 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.

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