For Lust of Knowing; Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair to good. xvii, [1], 500 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Index . Small tears and chips to DJ edges. Some soiling to DJ. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. Includes ephemera about a book signing by Archie Roosevelt. Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. (February 18, 1918 - May 31, 1990), the first child of Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt and grandson of US President, Theodore Roosevelt, was a soldier, scholar, polyglot, authority on the Middle East and a career CIA officer. He served as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's stations in Istanbul, Madrid and London. Roosevelt had a speaking or reading knowledge of at least twenty languages. An Arabic scholar and former CIA operative, he offers an informed perspective of the Islamic world, recounting his career in the intelligence service and the important political figures he has met along the way. The author discusses his experiences as an intelligence officer during and after World War II in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere, and his experiences with the Voice of America. His wife is Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt, Chief of Protocol for the U.S.