{"product_id":"tchaikovsky-19-a-diplomatic-life-robert-f-jr-ober-9781425778477","title":"Tchaikovsky 19, a Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain","description":"\"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\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert F. Jr. Ober\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142577847X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781425778477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d","brand":"Robert F. Jr. Ober","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48444803842303,"sku":"9781425778477","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_125426fe-8e1c-4daf-94b6-73999be8af7d.jpg?v=1777214662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tchaikovsky-19-a-diplomatic-life-robert-f-jr-ober-9781425778477","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}