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title: "Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix"
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# Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

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			        		&#x201C;Veteran reporter Lynda Schuster takes readers on a nostalgia tour through journalism as It Used to Be.&#x201D; &#x2014;Meghan Daum,&#xA0;NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW&#x201C;Lynda Schuster&#x2019;s new memoir&#xA0;Dirty Wars and Polished Silver&#xA0;pulls back the curtain...&#xA0;Her memoir showcases the myriad ways in which the field of journalism has shifted since her time as a foreign correspondent.&#x201D; &#x2014;THE WASHINGTON DIPLOMAT&quot;Engaging and humane&#x2026; Schuster&#x2019;s humor and common sense shine through, as well as her sense of adventure....Schuster wins you over.&#x201D; &#x2014;John Allison,&#xA0;PITTSBURGH QUARTERLY&quot;Raw and moving...Schuster writes with wry humour deftly woven throughout&#xA0;Dirty Wars and Polished Silver.&quot; &#x2014;TIMES OF LONDON&quot;A sparkling chronicle of her life...&#xA0;Dirty Wars and Polished Silver&#xA0;is a sharply observant and well-rendered telling of the life of a courageous international journalist and diplomat&#x2019;s wife.&#xA0; Great story. Amusing prose... Do not miss it. &#x2014;PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE &#x201C;A riveting international thriller...A page-turner thanks to lucid writing and thrilling storytelling.&#x201D;&#xA0;&#x2014;*starred* KIRKUS REVIEWS  &#x201C;A wonderful, witty ride about hurtling towards happiness and embracing maturity. If you ever wondered: What do I&#xA0;want&#xA0;and how do I find joy? Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is a book for you.&#x201D; &#x2014;Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer Prize&#x2013;winning author of&#xA0;Enrique&#x2019;s Journey &#xA0; &#x201C;Dirty Wars and Polished Silver&#xA0;is the fabulously entertaining story of Lynda Schuster&apos;s adventures as a foreign correspondent and wife of a U. S. diplomat. It captures all the glamour, intrigue, love, and, yes, loss that&apos;s to be found in a life lived on the frontlines, but it&apos;s also a deliciously fun (and funny!) story of transformation. A delight from start to finish.&#x201D; &#x2014;Valerie Plame Wilson, author of&#xA0;Fair Game&#x201C;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&#xA0;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.&#x201D;&#xA0;&#x2014;Roger&#xA0;Lowenstein, author of&#xA0;When Genius Failed&#xA0;and&#xA0;America&apos;s Bank&#xA0;&#xA0; &#xA0;&#xA0;&#x201C;Lynda Schuster&#x2019;s memoir&#xA0;Dirty Wars and Polished Silver&#xA0;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 -&apos;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.&#x201D; &#x2014;Jeffrey Herbst, President and CEO, Newseum&#x201C;As a former newspaper correspondent, Schuster knows how to string together a story&#x2026; [it] will pull you in, whether or not you&#x2019;ve been posted to any of the same countries as Schuster.&quot;&#xA0;-FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Lynda Schuster is a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor, who has reported from Central and South America, Mexico, the Middle East, and Africa. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Utne Reader, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times Magazine, among other. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and daughter.
						    	
					    	
						
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