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- catalog abstract ""In 1951 Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled, introspective teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his professorial father and older brother; his mother, who suffered from extreme depression, had been absent from the family for some time. Ten years later, now less gangly but no less introspective, he was finishing a two-year stint in the army in West Germany and heading toward Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, having narrowly escaped combat in the Berlin crisis of 1961." "Post's experiences in high school in Madison, Wisconsin, and Paris, his Camus-influenced undergraduate years at Cornell University, and his army service in Germany are set very effectively against the events of the Cold War. McCarthyism and American crackdowns on dissidents, American foreign and military policy in Western Europe in the nuclear age, French and German life and culture, crises in Paris and Berlin that nearly bring the West to war and the Post family to dissolution - these are the larger scenes and subjects of his self-disclosure as a contemplative, conflicted "Cold War agnostic.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11577680.
- catalog coverage "Europe Politics and government 1945-".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1945-1989.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In 1951 Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled, introspective teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his professorial father and older brother; his mother, who suffered from extreme depression, had been absent from the family for some time. Ten years later, now less gangly but no less introspective, he was finishing a two-year stint in the army in West Germany and heading toward Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, having narrowly escaped combat in the Berlin crisis of 1961."".
- catalog description ""Post's experiences in high school in Madison, Wisconsin, and Paris, his Camus-influenced undergraduate years at Cornell University, and his army service in Germany are set very effectively against the events of the Cold War. McCarthyism and American crackdowns on dissidents, American foreign and military policy in Western Europe in the nuclear age, French and German life and culture, crises in Paris and Berlin that nearly bring the West to war and the Post family to dissolution - these are the larger scenes and subjects of his self-disclosure as a contemplative, conflicted "Cold War agnostic.""--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 226 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0877457018".
- catalog isPartOf "Singular lives".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Politics and government 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1945-1989.".
- catalog subject "973.92 21".
- catalog subject "CT275.P6885 A3 2000".
- catalog subject "Cold War.".
- catalog subject "Post, Gaines, 1937-".
- catalog title "Memories of a Cold War son / by Gaines Post, Jr. ; foreword by Albert E. Stone.".
- catalog type "text".