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An American adventure : from early aviation through three wars to the White House
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- Creator
- William Lloyd Stearman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xi, 264 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781591148272, 1591148278
- OCLC
- ocn756377481
- Includes index.
- 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
Subjects
- Stearman, William Lloyd, 1922-
- Stearman, William Lloyd, 1922- -- Family.
- Stearman, Lloyd, 1898-1975.
- United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
- National Security Council (U.S.) -- Biography.
- Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
- Foreign correspondents -- United States -- Biography.
- Diplomats -- United States -- Biography.
- United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.