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1974 · 91028 — New York: Crown Publishers Inc 1974. Second printing stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. vii 1 279 1 pages. Illustrated with photographs many of them published here for the first time. Index. Some edge soiling. DJ has some wear and soiling. Alden R. Hatch September 26 1898 – February 1 1975 was an American writer. Alden Hatch was the author of more than 40 books. A number of his works chronicled the lives of a variety of high-profile individuals such as Pope Pius XII Pope John XXIII Brother André Charles de Gaulle Prince Bernhard Glenn Curtiss Dwight D. Eisenhower Mamie Eisenhower George S. Patton Wendell Willkie Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Wilson Clare Boothe Luce Buckminster Fuller and what Hatch described as a "novelized biography" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hatch wrote several books on his friend Dwight Eisenhower and his official biography was used by the General during his 1952 presidential campaign. Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. July 12 1895 – July 1 1983 was an American architect systems theorist writer designer inventor philosopher and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth" "Dymaxion" e.g. Dymaxion house Dymaxion car Dymaxion map "ephemeralization" "synergetics" and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions mainly architectural designs and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983. <br /> Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1960 he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from the Franklin Institute. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1967 on the occasion of the 50-year reunion of his Harvard class of 1917 from which he had been expelled in his first year. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968. The same year he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. He became a full Academician in 1970 and he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects the same year. Also in 1970 Fuller received the title of Master Architect from Alpha Rho Chi APX the national fraternity for architecture and the allied arts. In 1976 he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. In 1977 he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. He also received numerous other awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. Crown Publishers, Inc hardcover