Potomac Fever : a Memoir of Politics and Public Service.

After a highly successful career in investment banking with his own firm and a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, J. William Middendorf became restive and looked for new challenges. Having "learned how to make money," he writes in this memoir, he "wanted to learn how to make a diffe...

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Main Author: Middendorf, William
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Language:English
Published: New York : Naval Institute Press, 2011.
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505 0 |a Preface; Prologue; Chapter 1: Down to the Sea, in a Ship; Chapter 2: Postwar; Chapter 3: Presidential Politics: Goldwater, the Draft; Chapter 4: Presidential Politics: Goldwater, the Nomination; Chapter 5: Presidential Politics: Goldwater, the Convention; Chapter 6: Presidential Politics: Goldwater, the Campaign; Chapter 7: Presidential Politics: Nixon; Chapter 8: Ambassador: Netherlands, One; Chapter 9: Ambassador: Netherlands, Two; Chapter 10: Ambassador: Netherlands, Three; Chapter 11: Secretary of the Navy: One; Chapter 12: Secretary of the Navy: Two. 
505 8 |a Chapter 13: Secretary of the Navy: ThreeChapter 14: Secretary of the Navy: Once and Forever--The Bicentennial; Chapter 15: The Business of Banking; Chapter 16: CIA and OAS: Politics, Economics, Minutiae; Chapter 17: Organization of American States: Nicaragua and El Salvador; Chapter 18: Organization of American States: Falklands and Grenada; Chapter 19: The European Community; Chapter 20: The New Russia; Chapter 21: Economic Freedom and Justice; Coda; An Epilogue of Sorts: Thoughts on Reaching Eighty-Six; Notes; Index; About the Author. 
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