America in Search of Itself is Theodore H. White’s sweeping narrative of the transformation of American politics from 1956 to 1980. Drawing on firsthand reporting, interviews, and decades of political observation, White explores the forces that reshaped the American presidency, the evolution of electoral strategies, and the shifting social and cultural landscape that influenced national decis…
From the first outbreak of hostilities in northern China in 1937 to the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945, this book recreates the decade of upheaval when China was caught in the grip of revolution and war and torn from its feudal past. The authors, Time-Life correspondents during the war years, report firsthand on the rise and fall of the Kuomintang nationalist government a…