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Title: My Daddy Fought the Cold War
Publisher: Augusta Free Press
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1450783465
ISBN 13: 9781450783460
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good

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When daughters Anneke and Julia, then 8 and 10, stood where the infamous Berlin Wall had divided East and West through three decades, they saw only manicured grass and bike and walking trails. Let's get ice cream, said one. So how was their daddy to explain a world that had been defined by that grotesque Wall, and a Foreign Service career spanning these same peculiar years? In tales that are funny, poignant, and provocative, Bob Dickerman recalls what it was to fight the Cold War as a self-described working stiff diplomat in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. This is hands-on history as it's too rarely written.

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Bob Dickerman was a 24-year-old reporter on The Chicago Tribune when invited to join the United States Foreign Service in 1962. His assignments took him, in order, to Finland, Somalia, South Vietnam, Norway, Iceland, West German, the Eastern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, and Denmark. Now retired, he lives on a bucolic Appalachian farm surrounded by the George Washington National Forest west of Staunton, Virginia. Raised in Staunton, Oberlin, Ohio, and Bloomington, Indiana, Bob was educated at Antioch College, Roskilde Arbejderfolkehøjskolen in Denmark, and Harvard University. He is a former Research Fellow of Harvard's Center for International Affairs.

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