An unplanned life : a memoir
(2005)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/ELSEY,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]
©2005
©2005
DESCRIPTION
ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0826216226 (alk. paper), 9780826216229
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
From Oakmont to ONI -- The Map Room -- Normandy -- Back to the White House -- A new president -- Into everything -- 1948 -- "A passion for anonymity" -- Korea -- Sally, Averell, and the Red Cross -- Pullman and the Pentagon -- Capstone
"Memoir of the author's experiences working in the White House during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, including inside accounts of his work on classified documents, U.S.-Soviet relations, and Truman's "Whistle-Stop Campaign," and his long association with the American Red Cross"--Provided by publisher