Inside America: A Voyage of Discovery.

NEHRU, Jawaharlal.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 142442

New Dehli: National Book Stall, n/d.

First printing of this edition of this collection of speeches by Nehru in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jawaharlal Nehru Dec 1956.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed, with none appearing at auction in the last 65 years.

Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in Washington where he was warmly welcomed by former US President Harry S Truman. Nehru spent three weeks travelling across the US, meeting members of the House and Senate and addressing several meetings in which he laid out India’s foreign policy interests. As noted by most historians and media reports at the time, Nehru was given a warm welcome upon his maiden visit in Washington DC in 1949, flying in on Truman’s personal plane The Independence. This was the first of Nehru’s four visits to the US — returning in 1956, in 1960 and in 1961. Inside America: A Voyage of Discover contains all of the speeches delivered by Nehru in America including his Address to the U.S. Congress (October 13, 1949), Tribute to George Washington (October 13, 1949), Tribute to Roosevelt (New York: October 16, 1949), Address at the Waldorf-Astoria Banquet (October 20, 1949), and Address to Chicago University (October 28, 1949) among others.