David Greene is cohost of NPR's Morning Edition. He is NPR's former Moscow bureau chief and has spent more than a decade covering politics and events from the White House and abroad. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Rose, a restaurant owner and fellow traveler.
"[An] epic journey by rail." -- Andrew McCarthy - New York Times
Book Review
"In this picaresque story of adventure, David Greene reaches beyond
Putin's Kremlin across Siberia to show us Russian life in the
Raw-the gritty stoicism, surprising warmth and generosity, black
humor, and resilience of the narod, the average people. A
storyteller with a human touch, Greene finds Russians tested by
tragedy and war as he joins them in their cramped apartments,
jammed trains, and gulping beer and pickled horse sausage in their
steam baths, facing an uncertain future with an unexpected streak
of inner wildness. His Russians are stolidly patriotic and, even
now, drawn mostly to strong leaders, resigned to tough justice and
preferring stability and harsh rule to the chaotic uncertainties of
democracy, their personal lives `full of poetry, pain, and
laughter.'" -- Hedrick Smith, author of The Russians and Who Stole
the American Dream
"Greene is a great storyteller, and what a story he has to tell. A
fascinating and thought-provoking journey deep into Russia's
physical vastness and soul. Greene's landscape is inhabited by a
cast of characters that light up both and would have made Anton
Chekhov proud. A first-rate tale that puts you aboard the
Trans-Siberian Railroad on the journey of a lifetime." -- Aaron
David Miller, distinguished scholar, Wilson Center, and author of
The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want)
Another Great President
"Beautifully written... The sharply observed vignettes, combined
with the moving, elegiac quality of the prose make it a hard book
to put down. David Greene's travels provide insights and context
for some of the more dramatic recent events in Russia that will
appeal to both the casual traveler and the seasoned observer." --
Fiona Hill, coauthor of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and
director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the
Brookings Institution
"Complex... thought-provoking." -- Publishers Weekly
"Describe[s] the Russia of the vast interior.... An impressionistic
book, a book about people along the way." -- Bruce Ramsey - Seattle
Times
"A mesmerizing, confounding, comforting and thought-provoking
book." -- Kevin Begos - Associated Press
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