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CRISES AND COMPASSION MEMOIR: FROM RUSSIA TO THE GOLDEN GATE –

A Memoir from World Renown Economics Professor John M Letiche


        John M. Letiche started life as Ianik Letichevsky, a citizen of the newly constituted Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The son of a brilliant but dictatorial father and a loving, cultivated mother, he went on to a remarkable career as an accomplished scholar, professor of economics, and adviser to governments. Letiche, now in his nineties, provides an intriguing look at the changes that have occurred during his lifetime. Following his Kiev childhood and formative years in Depression-era Montreal, he completed a doctorate at the University of Chicago and took up a Rockefeller fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. As a technical advisor to the Economic Commission for Africa he conducted trade talks with both gifted and corrupt heads of state in sub-Saharan Africa, and later shared a working White House dinner with an infamous American president. His half-century-long teaching career at [Berkeley] included a front row seat for the Free Speech Movement and the most documented student revolt in popular history. Told with humour, insight, and humility, Crises and Compassion moves nimbly among weighty events and meaningful personal history, showing how “civility in intellectual exchange” came to be the guiding principle of a life of monumental experiences (5 STARS – Amazon)  more   United StatesKansasLong Island67647

 

Professor Letiche at home in Berkeley hills with wife, Emily,  in background, circa 2005 [United States] [California] [Berkeley] [94707]

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From Anti-Semitic Russia to World Advisor

AMAZON REVIEWS – 5 Stars of 5

 

“Dr. Jack Letiche’s twentieth century journey instructs, entertains, and inspires the reader who will finish the book better off on any account, but above all for the time spent with the life and mind of a great thinker and global citizen.”

– Jeremy Kinsman, Canadian Ambassador or High Commissioner in Moscow, Rome, London, and Brussels, and Regents’ Lecturer 2009-10, University of California, Berkeley

United States Kansas Long Island 67647

 

Crisis & Compassion – From Russia to the Golden Gate

From Anti-semitic Russia to the Golden Gate and more motiviational stories  ,

 

Amazon 5 stars

 

“Dr. Jack Letiche’s twentieth century journey instructs, entertains, and inspires the reader who will finish the book better off on any account, but above all for the time spent with the life and mind of a great thinker and global citizen.”

– Jeremy Kinsman, Canadian Ambassador or High Commissioner in Moscow, Rome, London, and Brussels, and Regents’ Lecturer 2009-10, University of California, Berkeley

United States Kansas Long Island 67647

 

Crisis & Compassion – From Russia to the Golden Gate

From Anti-semitic Russia to the Golden Gate and more motiviational stories  ,

(Continued …Simply click on ‘ LOOK INSIDE’  above the book cover

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for remainder of  Preface and Chapter 1)

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