Looking Back At My First Eighty Years: A Mostly Professional Memoir - Couverture souple

Potash, Robert

 
9780595519118: Looking Back At My First Eighty Years: A Mostly Professional Memoir
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595519113 ISBN 13 : 9780595519118
Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

This volume offers a fascinating, impressively detailed, account of the professional and personal life of a prominent historian of Latin America. It covers his youth, contacts with a young Leonard Bernstein, and his education at Boston Latin School and Harvard.He served in WWII, rising from private to master sergeant, ending up in a three-man military intelligence unit on Okinawa. There he held in his hands the first aerial photos of atomic-bombed Hiroshima, and was an eye witness to the surrender of Japanese holdouts.In rising from college instructor to department chair Potash recounts the conflicts and tensions that make up academic life. His two-year leave with the State Department was a career transforming experience, turning him eventually into a best selling author on the the military's role in Argentine politics. Potash describes his experiences working with Nazi files as part of an investigating commission created by the Argentine government. Known for his expertise, Potash is frequently consulted in times of crisis by the Argentine media and his name has become a household word in that country.Potash also recalls his courtship and marriage and relationships with his two daughters. Readers have dubbed the manuscript "hard to put down."

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume offers a fascinating, impressively detailed, account of the professional and personal life of a prominent historian of Latin America. It covers his youth, contacts with a young Leonard Bernstein, and his education at Boston Latin School and Harvard.He served in WWII, rising from private to master sergeant, ending up in a three-man military intelligence unit on Okinawa. There he held in his hands the first aerial photos of atomic-bombed Hiroshima, and was an eye witness to the surrender of Japanese holdouts.In rising from college instructor to department chair Potash recounts the conflicts and tensions that make up academic life. His two-year leave with the State Department was a career transforming experience, turning him eventually into a best selling author on the the military's role in Argentine politics. Potash describes his experiences working with Nazi files as part of an investigating commission created by the Argentine government. Known for his expertise, Potash is frequently consulted in times of crisis by the Argentine media and his name has become a household word in that country.Potash also recalls his courtship and marriage and relationships with his two daughters. Readers have dubbed the manuscript "hard to put down."

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in Boston, educated at Harvard, and a WWII veteran, Robert Potash taught History at the University of Massachusetts, worked for the State Department, and served on an Argentine Commission investigating Nazis. Author of four Argentine best sellers, Potash is a Corresponding Member of the Argentine and Mexican Academies of History.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595519113
ISBN 13 
9780595519118
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
420
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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