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Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

By: Robert F. Ober

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Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

By: Robert F. Ober

Readers will discover the failures of Kissinger ́s policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carter ́s balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Ober ́s book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . It ́s all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike today ́s walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ́80s. I don ́t know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".

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Seeing Arabs Through an American School

A Beirut Memoir, 1998-2001

By: Robert F. Ober Jr.

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A Beirut Memoir, 1998-2001

By: Robert F. Ober Jr.

The author encountered the Arab worlds full complexity while heading the largest American independent school abroad, International College, Beirut, Lebanon. The College serves 3500 Arab students, preschool through high school. Its nonsectarian program accommodates Muslim, Druze and Christian families. The author worked to strengthen the schools American attributes in an atmosphere beclouded by Israeli air attacks, Hezbollahs resistance, Syrias occupation, and allegations of CIA involvement. Indigenous ways of management that had become entrenched during wartime as well as board governance from afar added complications. Despite everything, the school is a model that deserves replication elsewhere in the Middle East, especially after September 11. A reviewer in Connecticut observes: "As our national attention focuses more and more closely on that deeply troubled region, Mr. Obers experiences as president of a large private school take on increased relevance. Collectively, his descriptions develop a complete picture of an ancient and proud culture that is only glimpsed in other parts of the world amid dramatic news copy and images of violence" (Litchfield County Times, November 21, 2003).

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A Beirut Memoir, 1998-2001

By: Robert F. Ober Jr.

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Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

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Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

Seeing Arabs Through an American School

Seeing Arabs Through an American School

Seeing Arabs Through an American School

Seeing Arabs Through an American School

Tchaikovsky 19, A Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

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