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The past has another pattern. Memoirs by BALL, GEORGE W(ildman)
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Book description: New York,: W. W. Norton & Co. ,. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1982. Hard Cover. 527 pages, well illustrated, cloth, dj, 1st edition, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 'George Wildman Ball, (1909-94), American lawyer and diplomat, b. Des Moines, Iowa. Admitted to the bar in 1934, he served (1942-44) as counsel in the Lend Lease Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration. An expert on economic foreign policy, Ball became (1961) Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and then served (1961-66) as Undersecretary of State. During that period he played a major role in formulating U.S. foreign aid and foreign trade policy and was the chief architect of the Trade Agreements Act of 1962. A persistent critic of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, Ball left the State Department to become (1966-68) chairman of Lehman Brothers, a major investment banking firm. After briefly serving (1968) as U.S. representative to the United Nations, he returned to Lehman Brothers as a senior partner. Ball is the author of The Discipline of Power (1968).' .
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