The Advantage of Being Born Poor (SPECIAL SIGNED COPY)

A very special edition of "The Advantage of Being Born Poor," signed by Whitney to his personal friends Tom and Mabeth Hope. Whitney Easman's list of achievements is massive; he was a prominent and pioneering American businessman in the fields of linseed and soybean oil. He helped to build the first continuous soybean solvent extraction plant in the United States in 1934; worked with Senators, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, and Vice President Garner to protect the American soybean industry from Chinese imports; was the chief supplier of soybean oil for Henry Ford's first automobiles, working personally with Henry and Henry Reichhold; later became President of the Chemical division at General Mills, working personally with business giants Arthur Hyde and James Ford Bell and eventually being appointed as Vice President of General Mills and chairman of the General Mills Management Committee; worked with Dwayne Andreas at Honymead Products Company; appointed National Chairman of Volunteer Training of the Boy Scouts of America; was a personal adviser to Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen; repeatedly noted on national "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry" lists; helped to sight the extremely rare Lazarus taxon Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, which inspired both Sufjan Stevens and later John Corey Whaley to write his Michael L. Printz award-wining book, "Where Things Come Back." Includes a glued-in article from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle following Whitney's death, and two tipped-in correspondences from the Eastman family to the Hope family. The first is a Christmas letter from Whitney and his wife Karen, and the second is another letter sent the next January after his death. The first is signed by both Karen and Whitney, and the second is tenderly notated and signed by Karen. These make this a truly one of a kind item.