Winston S. Churchill -- Volume I: Youth 1874-1900

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; xxxviii, (2) 612 pages; Dustjacket is chipped and edgworn, missing a couple chunks at spine (now in mylar cover). SIGNED by the author on the halftitle. Inscribed and signed on ffep -- "For Rowly and Kay / With Christmas love / from / Bobby and Ethel / December 1966" Bobby and Ethel each signed their name; Ethel wrote the inscription. Kay and Rowland Evans had a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. and his wife Ethel and their family. Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Evans has made a few pencil notes on rear endpaper with page numbers of sentences he's marked. ; Signed by Author .