Book Signing with Ralph White at The Boookstore Plus

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Book Signing with Ralph White

The Bookstore Plus is pleased to host author Ralph White for a book signing event on Saturday, August 5, 2023 from 3-5 p.m. to autograph copies of his newest book Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians. 

About The Book

Getting Out of Saigon is a gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White’s desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.

About The Author

In 1973, Ralph White joined the Chase Manhattan Bank and worked as a business development officer in Thailand and Hong Kong; during his tenure in Thailand, he was temporarily assigned to Vietnam to close the bank’s Saigon branch as the city fell. Upon return to Chase’s New York headquarters in 1981, he worked in the International Strategic Planning Division and was a Vice President when he left. Over the next twenty years, White worked as a business development officer with three foreign banks and earned an MBA at Columbia University. In 2009, he founded the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a writing workshop for alumni of Columbia University, as a shared interest group under the Office of Alumni and Development. Having served as the organization’s president for its first decade, White now serves as its Chairman. He lives in New York City and Litchfield, Connecticut.