Arthur Burns and the Successor Generation

Arthur Burns, known throughout the world as a teacher, economist, central banker, and counselor to presidents, devoted the last years of his lifeówhile he was U.S. Ambassador in Germany and after his return to Washington in 1985óto the young people in the U.S. and Europe, the successor generation. He studied, spoke, and wrote about the need for greater mutual knowledge and understanding among the future leaders of the Atlantic community. This book is a record of his efforts in this vital field. The book is unique; no other American statesman has recognized the need for focusing attention on the successor generation. No other has devoted so much intellectual energy to studying the problems facing the young people, and to suggesting remediesónamely, better education and more exchanges among young people of different societies.

Business & Money

Tuch, Hans N.

Economics

University Press of America

Arthur Burns, known throughout the world as a teacher, economist, central banker, and counselor to presidents, devoted the last years of his life-while he was U.S. Ambassador in Germany and after his return to Washington in 1985-to the young people in the U.S. and Europe, the successor generation. He studied, spoke, and wrote about the need for greater mutual knowledge and understanding among the future leaders of the Atlantic community. This book is a record of his efforts in this vital field. The book is unique; no other American statesman has recognized the need for focusing attention on the successor generation. No other has devoted so much intellectual energy to studying the problems facing the young people, and to suggesting remedies-namely, better education and more exchanges among young people of different societies.

A lifelong lover of opera and classical music, the author served 35 years in the US Foreign Service. These memoirs recall his devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of that career. This book recalls the author's devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of his 35-year long career in the US Foreign Service. In these memoirs Hans "Tom" Tuch shares fascinating stories from his Cold War service in Moscow, Sofia, and Berlin, including Vice President Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union in 1959 (and his famous "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev), the U-2 disaster, and other crises in US-Soviet relations. He also writes about his friendship with Georg Solti in the 1950s, his attendance at the 1949 and 1950 Salzburg Festivals, the 1951 Maggio Musicale in Florence, the 1953 Pablo Casales music festival, and the 1954 Bayreuth Festival. The many opera productions and concert performances he enjoyed in 1950s Europe featured eminent conductors and outstanding vocal artists, among them Wilhelm Fürtwaengler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm, George Szell, Sir John Barbirolli, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Maria Callas, Kirsten Flagstadt, Kathleen Ferrier, Irmgard Seefried, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In 1952, he was the State Department escort on the Boston Symphony's first postwar European trip. He later escorted the New York Philharmonic on its 1959 tour of the Soviet Union and the New York City Ballet on its 1962 Soviet tour.

Arias, Cabalettas, and Foreign Affairs: A Public Diplomat's Quasi-Musical Memoir (Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series / Association for Diplo)

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Arthur Burns and the Successor Generation

Arthur Burns and the Successor Generation

Arias, Cabalettas, and Foreign Affairs: A Public Diplomat's Quasi-Musical Memoir (Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series / Association for Diplo)