Isbn: 9780312264932 - our man in vienna: a memoir (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. xv, [3], 313, [5] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. The inscription reads For Lilly Lon one of the greatest [?} With Love, Richard T. Conroy. Follows an unconventional diplomat from the bug-infested jungles of Belize to the sophisticated capital of Austria. Richard T. Conroy recast his early misadventures in the State Department and the Smithsonian Institution in comic memoirs and mystery novels. Mr. Conroy, who had talents in many fields, led a peripatetic life that took him from the nuclear laboratories of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to the lower rungs of international diplomacy to a senior position at the Smithsonian. Richard Timothy Conroy was born Dec. 20, 1927, in Copperhill, Tenn. Mr. Conroy worked for the nuclear plant in Oak Ridge. He moved to Washington in 1956, when he joined the State Department. Mr. Conroy became a scientific liaison to the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1969, he turned down an assignment to New Zealand, choosing to stay in Washington when his wife's career as a Washington Post reporter and columnist began to flourish. Mr. Conroy joined the Smithsonian's international affairs office. He retired in 1988. He published two memoirs about his years at the State Department, "Our Man in Belize" (1997) and "Our Man in Vienna" (2000), and three murder mysteries set at the Smithsonian. Derived from a Kirkus review: A genial successor to Our Man in Belize (1997) continues Conroy's deliciously unserious memoirs of life in the Foreign Service in 1960s Vienna, where suspected Russian spies apply for visas and the notorious mistress of mobster Bugsy Siegel asks for help. Conroy offers a wryly humorous recollection. His view is not from the lofty perches of the Embassy but the more lowly regions of the Consulate, where he is initially a vice-consul responsible for issuing visas. Vienna is not Belize, and the eating and drinking is so good that he soon regains most of the weight he lost in Central America. Antiques (especially fine Art Nouveau pieces) are cheap, too, and as a pianist there are not only concerts to enjoy but superb pianos to acquire. But it's also the height of the Cold War, don't forget, and applications for visas to the US must be carefully scrutinized (which means Conroy often has to meet with the CIA over lunch to discuss such applicants as the businessman who claims he was only wearing a Red Army uniform in a photograph in his file to impress his girlfriend). The author describes colorful colleagues like Theo (the dipso legal adviser who invaded Stalingrad on a bicycle) and relates the various odd jobs that fell his way (such as ensuring that an elderly American who wanted to be a ballet dancer got his monthly remittance, and helping an old woman from Brooklyn escape from a Budapest man she was convinced was slicing flesh off her feet). But after dealing with this rich mix of cons, innocents, and lost souls, Conroy was eventually transferred to Washington, where he learned to tangle with an often obtuse State Department and some devious official foreign visitors. The humor, the tone and the period charm and infectious goodwill are noteworthy. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Richard Timothy Conroy and Camille Conroy (Author (illustrator). …