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Signed French-language book: War Memoirs: The Unit, 1942-1944 by Charles de Gaulle. Paris, France: Librairie Plon, 1956. Softcover, 5.75 x 9, 713 pages. Signed and inscribed in ink on the first free end page in French (translated), “A. M. Walter Lippmann, a souvenir of the great ordeal, kind regards, C. de Gaulle, 18. 6. 56.” Includes a custom clamshell presentation case. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/None, with a bookplate removed from inside the front wrapper, creasing and sunning to the spine, and some soiling and rubbing to wrappers.
Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889–1974) whose been deemed as the ‘Father of Modern Journalism.’ He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column ‘Today and Tomorrow,’ and one for his 1961 interview with Nikita Khrushchev. With a career spanning 60 years, Lippmann is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term ‘stereotype’ in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books. He also played a notable role as research director of Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I Board of Inquiry.
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