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Theodore H. White (1915–1986) was an American political journalist born in Boston, Massachusetts.
From a modest Jewish family in Boston, White received a scholarship to Harvard in 1934 based upon his academic achievements at the famous Boston Latin high school.
He graduated from Harvard in 1938 with a degree in Chinese history. While traveling around the world on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship after graduation, he reached China in 1939 and offered his services to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Chunking. In 1939, at the age of 22 he was appointed Supervisor of the China Information Committee, which was charged with promoting the Nationalist Government in foreign news stories.
After freelancing for the Boston Globe and the Manchester Guardian, he was recruited by John Hersey to cover East Asia for TIME magazine, becoming chief of its China bureau in 1945.
He wrote Breach of Faith (1975), In Search of History (1978), and America in Search of Itself (1982).
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