As it was : a memoir / Robert M. Pennoyer.
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TextPublisher: Westport, CT : Prospecta Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 324 pages : illustrations,facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781632260451Subject(s): Pennoyer, Robert M., 1925- | Lawyers -- United States -- BiographySummary: BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. "Robert M. Pennoyer was born into a storied family - his maternal grandfather was the legendary J. P. Morgan. His irresistible memoir traces his sheltered childhood on the Gold Coast of Long Island; an adolescence overshadowed by the gathering clouds of World War II; and a young adulthood that survived one of the decisive engagements of the Pacific Theater - Iwo Jima. The author gives us as well a heartwarming account of a romance that blossomed into a lifelong matrimonial partnership and a close family life, tested nonetheless by crisis. And he chronicles a distinguished career, the early part of which was spent in the service of President Eisenhower and the latter part in private law practice and pro bono work.
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Includes index.
BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. "Robert M. Pennoyer was born into a storied family - his maternal grandfather was the legendary J. P. Morgan. His irresistible memoir traces his sheltered childhood on the Gold Coast of Long Island; an adolescence overshadowed by the gathering clouds of World War II; and a young adulthood that survived one of the decisive engagements of the Pacific Theater - Iwo Jima. The author gives us as well a heartwarming account of a romance that blossomed into a lifelong matrimonial partnership and a close family life, tested nonetheless by crisis. And he chronicles a distinguished career, the early part of which was spent in the service of President Eisenhower and the latter part in private law practice and pro bono work.
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