An interview with Joan Dulles Talley
Joan Dulles Talley (Interviewee), Mark R. DePue (Interviewer), Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
An interview with Joan Dulles Talley covering the following topics: Allen Macy Dulles; Allen Welsh Dulles; Martha 'Clover' Dulles; John Foster Dulles; Eleanor Dulles; Phillips Exeter Academy; Princeton University; Oxford University; Bethesda Naval Hospital; Bellevue Sanatorium, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; Jungian psychology; Santa Fe, New Mexico; an ancestor, John Stratton Gilman who was one of the builders of the USS Monitor. This interview covers Joan's early years growing up in a diplomatic family, and especially her relationship with Allen Macy Dulles, her younger brother by six years. It chronicles the family's reaction to Allen's injuries in Korea in late 1952, his slow and tragically limited recovery from the severe brain injury that he suffered in combat, and Joan's involvement with his care after that injury
Audiobook, English, 2007