Mountain Road

In China during the war years, THEODORE H. WHITE served as Chief of Bureau for Time Magazine. He first burst into literary prominence as co-author of "Thunder Out of China", a brilliant analysis of China¿s crisis. Following the end of the war, he was posted to war-ravished Europe where he produced the acclaimed report: "Fire in the Ashes". With "The Mountain Road", his first novel, White accomplished what no other writer had ever done before: had each of his first three books selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Today, Teddy White is best remembered for his journalistic series of books entitled ¿The Making of the President...¿, which contemporaneously documented several U.S. presidential campaigns. Mr. White was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in 1938, having been the first honors student of the legendary China scholar, John King Fairbank. During the 1960s and 70s, he was an active member of the senior common room of Dudley House in Harvard College.White, Theodore H. is the author of 'Mountain Road', published 2006 under ISBN 9781599880006 and ISBN 1599880008.