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Whistle Stops : Adventures in Public Life /

Wilson Wyatt was Jack Kennedy's presidential emissary to Sukarno in a crisis that might have cost the West the oil of the East Indies and lost Indonesia to the Communist orbit. He headed a mission to North Africa during World War II, managed Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign, and pla...

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Autor principal: Wyatt, Wilson W. (Wilson Watkins), 1905-1996
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1985]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. A Conversation with Trygve Lie; 2. The Home Front; 3. The Great American Lottery; 4. Washington Hot Seat; 5. Talking Sense to the American People; 6. The Conscience of American Politics; 7. Kentucky's Quiet Revolution; 8. Oil Crisis in the Orient; 9. Atlantic City and Chicago; 10. Return to the Hearthstone; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. 
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