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The first American foreign service officer to die a violent death for political reasons was Robert Whitney Imbrie, murdered in Teheran on July 18, 1924. The story of Imbrie holds the elements of any good story―adventure, danger, suspense, conflict, romance, tragedy, a strong protagonist, and enduring significance. Unfortunately, Imbrie’s story has been almost totally neglected. What exists spotlights his death. The primary documentation consists of government records, Imbrie’s war memoir and travel writing, a few letters, photographs, and eyewitness newspaper and magazine articles. In some sources, Imbrie is not named but referred to only as “an American vice-consul.” The secondary sources concern his death, but understanding his death requires knowing who he was, how he came to his end, and how it shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. It is 1924. A vigorous battle wages for the control of oil in the Middle East. Robert Imbrie, with a $40,000 price on his head courtesy of the Bolsheviks, is posted to Tehran amid civil strife. Will the outcome be a constitutional monarchy, a secular republic, or an Islamic state? Commercial and political interests collide in a vicious attack on Imbrie, who succumbs to shock, having been stabbed 130 times on the Cossack parade grounds and in a police hospital. His death brings the first U.S. battleship to Persian waters, to transport his body home. President Coolidge attends his funeral, held in the same church as Lincoln’s funeral. Back in Tehran, the American delegation faces the aftermath of Imbrie’s death. What they do determines the future of U.S.-Iranian relations to the present day.
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Susan M. Stein spent thirty-five years teaching full time on the secondary and post-secondary level, including pedagogical collaborations in Ukraine and Uganda. She was a columnist and feature writer for the Omaha World-Herald Sunday magazine for fifteen years and is an editor of fiction and nonfiction publications. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 celebre, 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. AUTHOR: Susan M. Stein spent thirty-five years teaching full time on the secondary and post-secondary level, including pedagogical collaborations in Ukraine and Uganda. She was a columnist and feature writer for the Omaha World-Herald Sunday magazine for fifteen years and is an editor of fiction and nonfiction publications. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska. 16 photographs, 1 illustration, 6 maps The story of Robert Whitney Imbrie (1883-1924), the first U.S. foreign service officer to be murdered for political reasons. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781640121942
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