The front board is lightly rubbed; there is intermittent, minor undesrcoring, an ownership signature of the front end paper,and minor annotations on the back paste down. x 306 pages. "Park Chung-hee 14 November 1917 - 26 October 1979) was a South Korean politician and Republic of Korea Army General who served as the President of South Korea from 1963 until his assassination in 1979, assuming that office after first ruling the country as head of a military dictatorship installed by the May 16 military coup d'état in 1961. Before his presidency, he was the chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction from 1961 to 1963 after a career as a military leader in the South Korean army." Wikipedia