{"product_id":"dear-ines-dear-janet-von-george-b-bookman","title":"Dear Ines ... Dear Janet","description":"\u003cp\u003eDear Ines, Dear Janet is a unique correspondence between two women-one British and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone American-from totally different backgrounds who became friends and wrote to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach other over a period of 50 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Bookman was born to an immigrant Jewish family from Eastern Europe. Her father\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espoke mainly Yiddish, and her mother had little formal education. Janet grew up in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBronx borough of New York City, found her way to Washington, married a news man\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand raised two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer friend, Ines Burrows, came from the British upper class, descended from founders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof The Times of London, and married a career diplomat who became Ambassador to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurkey and NATO, and represented Britain in the Persian Gulf. He was knighted for his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ework by the Queen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two women met in Washington soon after World War II, became close friends, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrote to each other over half a century until Ines died in 1997. Naturally they wrote about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efamily problems (each raised teenagers in the Sixties), but also about what was going on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the world-Vietnam, U.S. and British elections, the glamorous life led by Ines and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eevents in Janet's more tranquil existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese letters give unusual insight into the lives of two very interesting and articulate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewomen-and into the qualities that can make for friendship-over the years and over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethousands of Trans-Atlantic miles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780595404216\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e50 Years of Transatlantic Letters Between Two Friends\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780595404216","offer_id":50315458904389,"sku":"9780595404216","price":45.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ea491123-1afc-4cde-84cb-d818b2b2f1ad.jpg?v=1775708009","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/dear-ines-dear-janet-von-george-b-bookman","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}