Looking Back at My First Eighty Years | A Mostly Professional Memoir

Robert A. Potash

ISBN 10: 0595519113 / ISBN 13: 9780595519118

Published by iUniverse, 2008

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Looking Back at My First Eighty Years | A Mostly Professional Memoir | Robert A. Potash | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2008 | iUniverse | EAN 9780595519118 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking Back at My First Eighty Years | A Mostly Professional Memoir
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595519113
• ISBN 13: 9780595519118
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 25D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 679 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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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."

About the Author

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.