From a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, a riveting memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world
LYNDA SCHUSTER grew up in Detroit and began her career in 1980 in the Wall Street Journal's Dallas Bureau. After reporting as correspondent in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala, she became the Journal's Mexico bureau chief in 1983. Following the assassination of her first husband, Los Angeles Times reporter Dial Torgerson, she was transferred to Beirut and also reported from the Persian Gulf, Israel, and Egypt, and then became the Journal's South America correspondent, reporting extensively on the trial's of Argentina's "Dirty War." In the late 1980s she left the Journal to follow her current husband, Dennis Jett, to his diplomatic post in Malawi. Since then, her writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, where she was their South Africa Bureau Chief, Granta, Utne Reader, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine, among others. She is the author of A Burning Hunger- One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid, and currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and daughter.
"Veteran reporter Lynda Schuster takes readers on a nostalgia tour
through journalism as It Used to Be." --Meghan Daum, NEW YORK TIMES
BOOK REVIEW "Lynda Schuster's new memoir Dirty Wars and Polished
Silver pulls back the curtain... Her memoir showcases the myriad
ways in which the field of journalism has shifted since her time as
a foreign correspondent." --THE WASHINGTON DIPLOMAT "Engaging and
humane... Schuster's humor and common sense shine through, as well
as her sense of adventure....Schuster wins you over." --John
Allison, PITTSBURGH QUARTERLY "Raw and moving...Schuster writes
with wry humour deftly woven throughout Dirty Wars and Polished
Silver." --TIMES OF LONDON "A sparkling chronicle of her life...
Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is a sharply observant and
well-rendered telling of the life of a courageous international
journalist and diplomat's wife. Great story. Amusing prose... Do
not miss it. --PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
"A riveting international thriller...A page-turner thanks to lucid
writing and thrilling storytelling." --*starred* KIRKUS REVIEWS
"A wonderful, witty ride about hurtling towards happiness and
embracing maturity. If you ever wondered: What do I want and how do
I find joy? Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is a book for you."
--Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Enrique's Journey
"Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is the fabulously entertaining
story of Lynda Schuster's adventures as a foreign correspondent and
wife of a U. S. diplomat. It captures all the glamour, intrigue,
love, and, yes, loss that's to be found in a life lived on the
frontlines, but it's also a deliciously fun (and funny!) story of
transformation. A delight from start to finish." --Valerie Plame
Wilson, author of Fair Game "For the armchair traveler and imagined
war correspondent, and for anyone who misses the tropical
non-paradises of Africa and Latin America that furnished the
intrigues of Graham Greene, I heartily recommend Dirty Wars and
Polished Silver. It throbs with the romance, and the anguish, of a
life lived in excitement and in peril, tracking sundry and dubious
American missions abroad." --Roger Lowenstein, author of When
Genius Failed and America's Bank "Lynda Schuster's memoir Dirty
Wars and Polished Silver is the story of a woman breaking down
barriers to become an accomplished war correspondent, and an
on-the-ground narrative of the conflicts that wracked the world in
the 1980s and -'90s. It is also a tale of love, great loss, and
love again that demonstrates the resilience of the soul. I
recommend it to all, but especially to those who wonder how to
succeed in life by following both their head and their heart."
--Jeffrey Herbst, President and CEO, Newseum
"As a former newspaper correspondent, Schuster knows how to string
together a story... [it] will pull you in, whether or not you've
been posted to any of the same countries as Schuster." -FOREIGN
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