KORNITZER, Bela.
The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy , 1955.
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First Edition of The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers; Warmly Inscribed Bela Kornitzer to Boxing Legend Gene Tunney
First edition of this famed journalist's work on the Eisenhower brothers. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion on the dedication page, "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. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, remnant of paper to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Rupert Finegold. Books signed and inscribed by Bela Kornitzer are rare.
The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955) is a work of biographical journalism by Bela Kornitzer (1893–1965), a Hungarian-born writer whose own extraordinary life lent his interest in the American family as a democratic institution a particular moral urgency. In 1940, Kornitzer compiled his many interviews with prominent men into a two-volume work, Fathers and 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 those families. He fled Hungary following the Communist takeover and came to America in 1947, where he proceeded to document the lives of prominent American men. The book itself draws on direct interviews with all five Eisenhower brothers — Arthur the banker, Edgar the lawyer, Dwight the soldier-president, Earl the engineer, and Milton the educator, as well as the late Roy — tracing their shared origins in Abilene, Kansas, and the values instilled by their parents David and Ida into what Kornitzer regarded as a model of American democratic character. Kornitzer believed that the framework for the success of American democracy was best represented in the dynamic of the American family, such as the Eisenhowers, because the family unit functioned as a miniature democratic state.
The Great American Heritage: The Story of the Five Eisenhower Brothers.
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