As the Twig is Bent [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Malcolm Wilkey (Author)

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Publication Date: January 26, 2004

This one life out of "The Greatest Generation" is incredibly varied and conflict-filled. A depression years' boyhood was the foundation for a scholarship to Harvard. An exchange scholarship to China was frustrated by the War, but produced an eye-opening

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George Cain, writing in the ABA journal Experience, put it "in capsule form," "Malcolm Wilkey is a lawyer who has had not only a second career but innumerable ones, ...major law firm partner in Houston: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas: As --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (January 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413411398
• ISBN-13: 978-1413411393
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,707,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Rollicking View of American History by a True Patriot, July 9, 2005

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This review is from: As the Twig is Bent: or, Did I See The Best of America (Paperback)

In this often humorous, finely detailed memoir, the author tells the story of twentieth century U.S. history from a personal perspective - and what a point of view! He rose from a depression-era southern boyhood to the battles of World War II, high offices in Washington, the U.S. ambassadorship to Uruguay, and now an active retirement, still serving his country, in Chile. A delightful, informed, opinionated recounting of landmarks in the history of a nation and in the life of a patriotic American.