{"product_id":"9781453517918","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\".","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128799117552,"sku":"9781453517918","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453517918_p0.jpg?v=1763847363","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453517918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}