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Memoirs of a Cold War son / Gaines Post, Jr.; foreword by Albert E. Stone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Post, Gaines, 1937-
- Series:
- Singular lives.
- Singular lives : the Iowa series in North American biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- United States.
- Europe--Politics and government--1945-.
- Europe.
- Post, Gaines, 1937-.
- Post, Gaines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1951 Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled, introspective teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his professorial father and older brother; his mother, who suffered from extreme depression, had been absent from the family for some time. Ten years later, now less gangly but no less introspective, he was finishing a two-year stint in the army in West Germany and heading toward Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, having narrowly escaped combat in the Berlin crisis of 1961. His quietly intense coming-of-age story is both self-revealing and reflective of an entire generation of young men
- Contents:
- Foreword albert e. stone; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Rue St-Julien-le-Pauvre; Chapter 2 Americans Abroad; Chapter 3 The Home Front; Chapter 4 From Cornell to Fort Sill; Chapter 5 Honest Johns and Germans; Chapter 6 Maneuvers; Chapter 7 War over Berlin?; Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-304-8
- OCLC:
- 50175127
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