The Forrestal Diaries

New York: Viking Press, 1951. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age toning, edge and corner wear, mild chipping, NOT clipped ($5.00). 8vo 581pp. first printed October 1951. from front flap: "Here are the private day-to-day notes, letters, reports, and recorded conversations of a man intimately connected with the people and the events that have shaped the present world situation. The diaries begin in 1944, shortly after James Forrester became Secretary of the Navy, and end with his resignation in March 1949 as America's first Secretary of Defense. [. . .] Records of cabinet meetings, diplomatic communications, talks with men in high places in our own and other governments, are here as Forrestal set them down. One of the fascinations of the diaries is the extent to which they show ho many of the problems now so acute were already fully apparent in the closing days of World War II." #01691.