UA Press releases new book by David Ramseur
by Michelle Saport |
The University of Alaska Press has released Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska
Frontier by David Ramseur.
Melting the Ice Curtain is the story of how inspiration, courage and persistence by citizen-diplomats can bridge a widening gap in superpower relations. Joining hands across the Bering Strait in the face of dangerous Cold War tensions, Alaskans and Russians launched a 30-year era of perilous yet prolific progress. As the U.S. marks 150 years since Alaska's purchase from Russia, Melting the Ice Curtain details a model of international cooperation sorely needed today.
David Ramseur is a visiting scholar in public policy at the University of Anchorage's Institute of Social and Economic Research. He served as press secretary, communications director, chief of staff and foreign policy advisor to Alaska Governors Steve Cowper and Tony Knowles and to Anchorage mayor and US Senator Mark Begich. He has visited the Soviet Union and Russia more than a dozen times starting with the Alaska Airlines' Friendship Flight in 1988.
For more information about this title and many more, please visit www.uapress.alaska.edu or call (800) 621-2736. Browse the UA Press Fall 2017 catalog to learn about other new and upcoming releases.
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