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...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction

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Chapter 1 In Search of an Orbit

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Chapter 2 Merry Hell and More

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Chapter 3 All There Is of Terrible

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Chapter 4 Imbrie, Acting

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Chapter 5 Living with Banquo's Ghost

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Chapter 6 Roaming the Black Sea

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Chapter 7 Netting Oil

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Chapter 8 Before the Last Picnic

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Chapter 9 Death on Distant Service

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Chapter 10 The Pursuit of Adequate Justice

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Chapter 11 What Was Manifest

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Closing Credits

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