A Diplomat’s Solitude (ebook)

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Surprisingly little has been written about William C. Bullitt. A few dull political studies and a single biography don’t do justice to his dazzling, action-packed life in Washington, Moscow, Paris and Vienna. A journalist and a diplomat, a writer and a foreign affairs analyst – the whimsical twists and turns of our hero’s biography found their way into novels by F.Scott Fitzgerald and Mikhail Bulgakov. A student of Freud and one of his exceedingly rare coauthors, Bullitt also managed to save his mentor from inevitable death after Hitler’s annexation of Austria. He was the first U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia; indeed, the Nazis blamed Bullitt for being one of the culprits of World War II. During their occupation of France, he became the only “American Mayor of Paris.”

After being a close friend and employee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he broke off ties with him in the 1940s, left his service in the capital, and signed up as a volunteer with de Gaulle’s army. In this whirlwind of historical events, we can discern the diplomat’s main character traits: his unique mindset, a rare ability to see far beyond the obvious, and an astuteness occasionally bordering on prophecy.

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Surprisingly little has been written about William C. Bullitt. A few dull political studies and a single biography don’t do justice to his dazzling, action-packed life in Washington, Moscow, Paris and Vienna. A journalist and a diplomat, a writer and a foreign affairs analyst – the whimsical twists and turns of our hero’s biography found their way into novels by F.Scott Fitzgerald and Mikhail Bulgakov. A student of Freud and one of his exceedingly rare coauthors, Bullitt also managed to save his mentor from inevitable death after Hitler’s annexation of Austria. He was the first U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia; indeed, the Nazis blamed Bullitt for being one of the culprits of World War II. During their occupation of France, he became the only “American Mayor of Paris.”

After being a close friend and employee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he broke off ties with him in the 1940s, left his service in the capital, and signed up as a volunteer with de Gaulle’s army. In this whirlwind of historical events, we can discern the diplomat’s main character traits: his unique mindset, a rare ability to see far beyond the obvious, and an astuteness occasionally bordering on prophecy.

Об Уильяме Бýллите написано на удивление мало. Несколько сухих политических исследований и всего одна академическая биография не в состоянии отобразить его яркую, насыщенную событиями жизнь в Вашингтоне, Москве, Париже и Вене. Журналист и дипломат, писатель и аналитик, оставивший след на страницах романов Скотта Фицджеральда и Михаила Булгакова — в биографии нашего героя немало сюжетных поворотов. Билл Буллит — едва ли не единственный соавтор Фрейда, спасший своего учителя от неминуемой гибели. Он был первым послом США в Советской России. Нацисты называли Буллита среди главных виновников Второй мировой войны. Он стал мэром Парижа в самые трудные для этого города дни.

Будучи близким другом Франклина Рузвельта, Буллит пошел на разрыв отношений с президентом. Оставив столичную службу, он отправился добровольцем на фронт в составе армии де Голля. За всеми этими историческими хитросплетениями вырисовываются главные качества дипломата — особый склад ума, редкая способность заглянуть далеко за горизонт, проницательность, обретавшая временами характер пророчества.

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Леонид Спивак

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1962, Leon Y. Spivak is a Russian language writer who explores many unique topics in both American and Russian history.

After graduating from New York University, Leon Spivak moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1997.
In 2001, he published a book on several fascinating episodes in Boston’s history, entitled Stories of the City of Boston. In 2005, Leon Spivak published a historical novelette Judah, devoted to a topic seldom touched on by writers or historians — the political biography of US Senator and Secretary of the Confederate States of America, Judah P. Benjamin. Most recently, Leon Spivak published a large number of articles on various aspects of Russian-American political and cultural relations from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Some of these articles were included in his well-received set of historical essays, Between Two Shores (2014).

This historical biography, A Diplomat’s Solitude, is the author’s first English-language publication.

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