The Great American Heritage. The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955.

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. First edition. xvii, [2], 331pp. 22 cm. Publisher's beige cloth with gilt titles. Very good with light spotting to the endpapers and edges, else near fine, in a very good dustwrapper with scattered spotting and a few tiny tears. Inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion: "To Gene Tunney, who manifested that body and spirit are truly ---- [?]. With sincere admiration and affection, Bela, May 26, 1963, Stamford, Conn." Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian-born journalist, made a career of interviewing prominent men. In 1940 he compiled his many interviews into a two-volume book, *Fathers & Sons*, which earned him a place on the Gestapo's most-wanted list. During the Nazi occupation, he sought protection for himself and for one hundred families under Cardinal Angelo Rotta, Papal Nuncio of Hungary, and is credited with saving the lives of these families. He fled the Communists in Hungary and came to America in 1947, and proceeded to document the lives of many prominent American men.

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Item #342548 The Great American Heritage. The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers. Bela KORNITZER.
The Great American Heritage. The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers