1946 A Journey for Our Times: A Memoir by Harrison E. Salisbury (read 5 Oct 1985) This book covers the author's life up to 1954 and his relationship with Russia. He was born in Minnesota about 1908 and much of this book is quite gripping. His most unnecessary and stupid use of four-letter vulgarities grated on my nerves and disgusted me, but his account of his time in Russia, and particularly his account of the time of Stalin's death I found fascinating. I think he is a bit over-dramatic at times. Also, he spends a lot of time talking about his sexual misbehavior, which could so easily have been omitted. Apparently some idiot thought it would make the book more interesting--I thought it disgusting. But aside from this much of the book was fresh and interesting. ( )

It's pretty good although it is fairly long. I wasn't entirely impressed with this just because it took me forever to get through. ( )