Vixi by Richard Pipes

Vixi by Richard Pipes

A distinguished historian, Harvard professor, and White House adviser looks back on his own life and on the tumultuous twentieth century 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 U.S. Air Corps, serve as professor of Russian history at Harvard for nearly forty years, and become adviser to President Reagan on Soviet and Eastern European affairs. In this engrossing book, the eminent historian remembers the events of his own remarkable life as well as the unfolding of some of the twentieth 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 penetrating observations as well as fascinating 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.

"It is hard to imagine a more interesting life, or one better told" Economist "an autobiography that is as candid and combative as it is entertaining." Daniel Johnson, Daily Telegraph "fascinating" Jeff Barak, Jewish Chronicle "Perhaps the most refreshing and valuable memoir to emerge from Washington in many years." Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle "A gracefully written account." Fred Siegel, Washington Post Book World"

Richard Pipes is Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University and an internationally renowned historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He is the author of twenty books.

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ISBN 10	0300109652
Titel	Vixi
Autor	Richard Pipes
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Yale University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-01-12
Seitenanzahl	320
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