Vintage “New York Times\" Hanson W. Baldwin Hand Signed TLS Dated 1961 for Sale

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Vintage “New York Times\" Hanson W. Baldwin Hand Signed TLS Dated 1961 For Sale

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Vintage “New York Times\" Hanson W. Baldwin Hand Signed TLS Dated 1961:
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Up for sale the\"New York Times\" Hanson W. Baldwin Hand Signed TLS Dated 1961.=
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Hanson Weightman Baldwin(March 22, 1903 – November 13, 1991) was the long-time military editor ofThe New York Times. He won aPulitzer Prize\"for his coverage of the early days of World War II\". He authored or edited numerous books on military topics.Hanson Baldwin was the son of Oliver Perry and Caroline (Sutton) Baldwin. He was born inBaltimore, Marylandon March 22, 1903. He attended theBoys\' Latin School of Marylandin Baltimore and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1924. After three years of naval service he began his newspaper career in 1927 as a reporter forThe Baltimore Sun. He joinedThe New York Timesin 1929 and wrote for them for the next forty years. In 1937 he became the paper\'s military analyst. That year, he spent four months in Europe reporting on the military preparedness for what was viewed as the coming war. One of his first major stories in 1938 was of theinterception of the ocean linerRexby U.S.B-17 Flying Fortresses, in which he personally participated. DuringWorld War IIhe wrote from the South Pacific, North Africa and Europe.His dispatches fromGuadalcanaland the Western Pacific won him thePulitzer Prize in 1943. His coverage of the Korean War forThe New York Timeshas been criticized for its inaccuracyand its racism.In 1959 he broke the news of high-altitude atomic bomb test by the United States, known asProject Argus. Besides working for The Times, he lectured and wrote regularly for magazines, scholarly quarterlies and for professional military publications. His papers were given as \"The Hanson W. Baldwin Collection\" to theGeorge C. Marshall Foundation.[5]After his retirement he continued to write articles on military affairs for the news columns and Op-Ed page of theNew York Times. He authored scores of books on military and defense topics. His books published are:Men and Ships of Steel(1935),We Saw It Happen(1938),The Caissons Roll(1938),Admiral Dealth(1939),What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy(1941),United We Stand(1941),Strategy for Victory(1942),The Navy at War(1943),The Price of Power(1947),Great Mistakes of the War(1949),Sea fights and Shipwrecks(1955),The Great Arms Race(1958),World War I: An Outline History(1962),The New Navy(1964),Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War II(1966),Strategy for Tomorrow(1970),The Crucial Years, 1939-1941(1976), andTiger Jack(1979). In 1962, Baldwin was secretly wiretapped in a precursor toProject Mockingbird.President Kennedy was mystified by how Baldwin was able to obtain his information on the Cuba missile crises and he would not reveal his sources.Besides the Pulitzer Prize, he received many awards and prizes, including the Distinguished Service Medal fromSyracuse Universityin 1944. He also received honorary degrees fromDrake Universityand the Clarkson Institute of Technology.