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An American adventure : from early aviation through three wars to the White House
Title
An American adventure : from early aviation through three wars to the White House / William Lloyd Stearman.
ISBN
9781591148272 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1591148278 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xi, 264 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2012
Contents
The Early Years and Family Roots
Living in the 1850s
The Roaring Twenties, Life in Wichita, and the Stearman Company Grows
Back to California and the Birth of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Observations on the America of My Youth, the Late 1920s to the Early 1940s
We Move North
Life on the Ranch and College Days
I Go to War
After the War Was Over
Postwar Move to Europe
Vienna
German Interlude : Berlin, Then Bonn
Return to the United States
Vietnam
Back in the State Department, White House Years Begin
Arms Control Agency, Georgetown University, and a Return to the White House
Epilogue.
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