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A Cave of Hands

A Cave of Hands

Hilburn, Paul

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralRegional: Southwest

ISBN13: 9798349238925
Publisher: Paul Hilburn
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 438
Weight: 2.85
Height: 0.94 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This personal memoir relates the author's experiences growing up in his small farming and ranching community in west central Texas, his college years at Texas A&M as a member of its corps of cadets, falling in love and marriage, his service in the US Air Force, and then an unlikely career in the Ivy League-dominated, pale, male and Yale US Foreign Service. The author looks back on his parents' growing up during the depression as well as his grandparents' life. Throughout the author comments on international developments as they related to his Air Force assignment in Japan, his Foreign Service assignments in Ecuador, Vienna, Peru, Geneva, Brussels and Luxembourg as well as his domestic assignments in the State Department's Latin American and Intelligence and Research bureaus. The Allende election in Chile, the fall of Saigon, State-CIA relations, aerial reconnaissance programs, nuclear nonproliferation, support for the Polish trade Union Solidarity, German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union are subjects of his reminiscences.

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