On Distant Service

On Distant Service

Author: Susan M. Stein

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1640123547

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On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie’s loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career. Susan M. Stein tells the story of a figure steeped in adventure and history. Imbrie rejected a legal career to volunteer as an ambulance driver during World War I and joined the State Department when the United States entered the war. Assigned to Russia, he witnessed the October Revolution, fled ahead of a Bolshevik arrest order, and continued to track communist activity in Turkey even as the country’s war of independence unfolded around him. His fateful assignment to Persia led to his death at age forty-one and set off political repercussions that cloud relations between the United States and Iran to this day. Drawing on a wealth of untapped materials, On Distant Service returns readers to an era when dash and diplomacy went hand-in-hand.


On Distant Service

On Distant Service

Author: Susan M. Stein

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1640121943

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On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie’s loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career. Susan M. Stein tells the story of a figure steeped in adventure and history. Imbrie rejected a legal career to volunteer as an ambulance driver during World War I and joined the State Department when the United States entered the war. Assigned to Russia, he witnessed the October Revolution, fled ahead of a Bolshevik arrest order, and continued to track communist activity in Turkey even as the country’s war of independence unfolded around him. His fateful assignment to Persia led to his death at age forty-one and set off political repercussions that cloud relations between the United States and Iran to this day. Drawing on a wealth of untapped materials, On Distant Service returns readers to an era when dash and diplomacy went hand-in-hand.


FCC Record

FCC Record

Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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The Internet Upheaval

The Internet Upheaval

Author: Ingo Vogelsang

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780262220637

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Early 2000 saw the US economy enjoy the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. This book argues that the impact of information technologies, particularly the internet, partly explain this phenomenon and analyzes the reform of telecommunications policy.