On Distant Service
Susan M. Stein
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 célèbre, 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.
Duration - 10h 25m.
Author - Susan M. Stein.
Narrator - Bryan Carmody.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2020 Susan M. Stein ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
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 célèbre, 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. Duration - 10h 25m. Author - Susan M. Stein. Narrator - Bryan Carmody. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2020 Susan M. Stein ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:11
Introduction
Duration:00:09:58
Chapter 1 In Search of an Orbit
Duration:00:35:54
Chapter 2 Merry Hell and More
Duration:01:12:03
Chapter 3 All There Is of Terrible
Duration:00:59:45
Chapter 4 Imbrie, Acting
Duration:00:52:48
Chapter 5 Living with Banquo's Ghost
Duration:00:38:45
Chapter 6 Roaming the Black Sea
Duration:00:43:41
Chapter 7 Netting Oil
Duration:01:16:23
Chapter 8 Before the Last Picnic
Duration:00:50:19
Chapter 9 Death on Distant Service
Duration:01:00:34
Chapter 10 The Pursuit of Adequate Justice
Duration:01:10:39
Chapter 11 What Was Manifest
Duration:00:54:33
Closing Credits
Duration:00:00:21