Summary of Robert D. Kaplan's In Europe's Shadow

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#1 Traveling is a way to relieve sadness. New surroundings prompt forgetfulness of old ones, and thus speed up the passage of time.

#2 The city was silent, and it was clear that the people were suffering. The bread and fuel lines began, and people were nervous and shy. They seemed as if they had never seen the sunlight.

#3 I had gone to Bucharest to interview the Romanian prime minister, and was treated as a professional journalist by the American diplomats.

#4 I began to acquire the habit of separating myself from the journalistic horde, looking for news in obscure locations. In 1984, I was told that Ceauşescu was blowing up entire neighborhoods of historic Orthodox churches, synagogues, and nineteenth-century houses in Bucharest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822513655

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Traveling is a way to relieve sadness. New surroundings prompt forgetfulness of old ones, and thus speed up the passage of time.

#2

The city was silent, and it was clear that the people were suffering. The bread and fuel lines began, and people were nervous and shy. They seemed as if they had never seen the sunlight.

#3

I had gone to Bucharest to interview the Romanian prime minister, and was treated as a professional journalist by the American diplomats.

#4

I began to acquire the habit of separating myself from the journalistic horde, looking for news in obscure locations. In 1984, I was told that Ceauşescu was blowing up entire neighborhoods of historic Orthodox churches, synagogues, and nineteenth-century houses in Bucharest.

#5

I learned how to be a journalist in Bucharest in 1981. Not all of it was intentional, and not altogether consciously, for Bucharest was powerful both on the outside and the inside as the years went on.

#6

Being a journalist means understanding the true nature of objectivity. You cannot expect a journalist to predict the distant future or even the details of the near future. However, a journalist should be able to make the reader measurably less surprised by the events taking place in a given place within a few years.

#7

While a journalist should be empathetic towards people, he must also be objective about their actions. He must never shade his observations for the sake of some imagined result.

#8

I visited several foreign embassies for briefings. The Israeli Embassy was off Strada Plantelor, southeast of the city center. It was in a villa that resembled a small and grim castle, on a section of street that was uninhabited.