"Acheson was the first of the great secretaries of state of the modern age. .. His book is an example of the storytelling art at its best, a natural aristocrat in the genre of memoirs, and the most important 'I-was-there' book we have thus far had dealing with revolutionary American experiences in the 20th century. The great events - the truman doctrine, the marshall plan, the Berlin airlift, t…
Paper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton .
Philip Agee worked for the CIA for twelve years, in three different countries. He began by accepting the 'Company's' view and aims, but as time went by he came to see it as a bureucracy designed not to help those in whose countries it works, but simply as an arm of American interests. He has spent the last three years writing careful diary of his experiences
"I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator."
In general, this book is about flying, and an aviator's life, in the beginning third of the 20th century. In particular, it describes the palnning and execution of the first nonstop airplane flight between the continents of America and Europe.