An American adventure
Subtitle: from early aviation through three world wars to the White House
By: William Lloyd Stearman
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781591148272
Subjects: Aeronautics; Diplomats; Family; Foreign correspondents; Military History; National Security Council (U.S.); Officers; Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Navy; United States; Biography; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Early Years and Family Roots; title: Living in the 1850s; title: The Roaring Twenties, Life in Wichita, and the Stearman Company Grows; title: Back to California and the Birth of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation; title: Observations on the America of My Youth, the Late 1920s to the Early 1940s; title: We Move North; title: Life on the Ranch and College Days; title: I Go to War; title: After the War Was Over; title: Postwar Move to Europe; title: Vienna; title: German Interlude : Berlin, Then Bonn; title: Return to the United States; title: Vietnam; title: Back in the State Department, White House Years Begin; title: Arms Control Agency, Georgetown University, and a Return to the White House; title: Epilogue.