{"product_id":"9780595620845","title":"Looking Back At My First Eighty Years: A Mostly Professional Memoir","description":"This volume offers a fascinating, impressively detailed, account of the  professional and personal life of a prominent historian of Latin  America.  It covers his youth,  contacts with a young Leonard Bernstein,  and his education at Boston Latin School and Harvard.\u003cbr\u003e  He served in WWII, rising from private to master sergeant, ending up in  a three-man military intelligence unit on Okinawa.  There he held in his  hands the first aerial photos of atomic-bombed Hiroshima, and was an eye  witness to the surrender of Japanese holdouts.\u003cbr\u003e  In rising from college instructor to department chair Potash recounts  the conflicts and tensions that make up academic life. His two-year  leave with the State Department was a career transforming experience,  turning him eventually into a best selling author on the the military's  role in Argentine politics.  Potash describes his experiences working  with Nazi files as part of an investigating commission created by the  Argentine government.  Known for his expertise, Potash is frequently  consulted in times of crisis by the Argentine media and his name has  become a household word in that country.\u003cbr\u003e  Potash also recalls his courtship and marriage and relationships with  his two daughters.  Readers have dubbed the manuscript \"hard to put down.\"","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075087286512,"sku":"9780595620845","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780595620845_p0.jpg?v=1763723667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780595620845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}