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VIXI
MEMOIRS OF A NON-BELONGER |
| By: |
Richard Pipes |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300101651 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300101652 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Here, historian Richard Pipes remembers the events of his own remarkable life as well as the unfolding of some of the 20th century's most extraordinary political events. He depicts his evolution as a historian and his understanding of how history is witnessed and how it is recorded. |
| Synopsis: |
Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the US Air Corps, serve as professor of Russian history at Harvard for nearly 40 years, and become adviser to President Reagan on Soviet and Eastern European affairs. Here, he remembers the events of his own remarkable life as well as the unfolding of some of the 20th century's most extraordinary political events. From his youthful memories of bombs falling on Warsaw to his recollections of the conflicts inside the Reagan administration over American policies toward the USSR, Pipes offers observations as well as portraits of such cultural and political figures as Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig. Perhaps most interesting of all, Pipes depicts his evolution as a historian and his understanding of how history is witnessed and how it is recorded. |
| Illustrations: |
46 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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