Grace Kennan Warnecke

Daughter of the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. This compelling and evocative memoir allows readers to follow Grace's amazing path through life - a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries, historic events, and fascinating people.

Produktdetails

• Russian and East European Studies
• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 130mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780822965893
• ISBN-10: 0822965895
• Artikelnr.: 54152807

Autorenporträt

Grace Kennan Warnecke serves as Chairman of the Board of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. She has had a lifelong association with Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is the former chair of the National Advisory Council, Harriman Institute, at Columbia University, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute. She served as country director for Winrock International in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 1999 to 2003. The former president of SOVUS Business Consultants, she was also the founder and project supervisor of the Volkhov International Small Business Incubator in Russia and executive vice president of the Alliance of American and Russian Women. Additionally, Grace Kennan Warenecke was founding executive director of the American-Soviet Youth Orchestra and associate producer of the prize-winning PBS documentary The First Fifty Years: Reflections on U.S.-Soviet Relations. As a professional photographer she was senior editor of A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. She has served as an election observer in Georgia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. In 2013 she was named a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard.