| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
PN 4874 .T625 A6 1994 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17116 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 0890159653 (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - PN 4874 .T625
- Item number - A6 1994
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Towery, Ken.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The chow dipper :
- Remainder of title - a personal and political odyssey /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ken Towery ; introduction by William F. Buckley.
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - 1st ed.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Austin, Tex. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Eakin Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1994.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xii, 423 p. :
- Other physical details - ill. ;
- Dimensions - 23 x 15 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - Includes index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - A chronicle of the author's experiences and views on journalism, politics, and government.
- Summary, etc. - "Autobiography of long-time journalist Towery, who served as Senator John Tower's chief of staff and was deputy director of the US Information Agency. The first quarter of the book deals with the author's World War II experiences. As an 18-year old enlistee, Towery was assigned to Battery C, 60th CAC in March or April 1941. He provides a particularly vivid account of life with an anti-aircraft artillery unit on Morrison Hill (where he met MacArthur once). Towery was among the first to sail north, aboard the Tottori Maru, in October 1942 and was imprisoned at Hoten camp no. 1." - Roderick Hall
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Towery, Ken.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Journalists
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
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| Uncontrolled Related/analytical Title |
- Uncontrolled related/analytical title - As a POW & in politics he was always-- the chow dipper.
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