Beggar on Horseback; The Autobiography of Thomas D. Cabot

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1979. Limited edition, one of 4000. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xi, [3],191, [5] pages. Illustrations. Foreword by Robert S. McNamara. Appendix. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears/chips. One of 4000 copies (per page after p. 191). Printed card with quotation from Sir James Barrie from Tom & Virginia. Thomas Dudley Cabot (May 1, 1897 - June 8, 1995) was an American businessman. He also became U.S. Department of State's Director of Office of International Security Affairs. Cabot was named after Thomas Dudley, the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who signed the charter creating Harvard College. He took courses at Boston Tech and Curtiss Flying School, becoming a World War I flight instructor at Kelly Field in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, before graduating cum laude from Harvard University in 1919. Upon graduation, Cabot started working for Cabot Corporation,[founded by his father. He was CEO of Cabot Corporation from 1922 to 1960, when he relinquished active control of the company, and went to his Boston office as director emeritus on a regular basis until his death. In 1951, Cabot was U.S. Department of State's Director of Office of International Security Affairs during the Truman administration, where he spoke for the State Department on NATO affairs, was in charge of a U.S. program arming allies throughout the world, and supervised the disbursement of $6 billion in foreign economic and military aid. In 1960, a Central Intelligence Agency cover called Gibraltar Steamship Company (whose president was Cabot) owned and established Radio Swan on Swan Island, a covert black operation to win supporters for U.S. policies and discredit Castro. Autobiography of the famous Boston renaissance man who made a fortune from West Virginia Natural Gas holdings, mapped a large portion of South America, participated in health care reform while with the State Department,and helped design the Grumman aluminum canoe.