Get an Up Close Look at Author Dick Shriver's Epic Journey "Glimpses of an Uncharted Life"

<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Uncharted-Life-Collapsed-Remained/dp/1958179450/ref=sr_1_2?crid=QCBPPW5PEKVU&amp;keywords=Glimpses+of+an+Uncharted+Life&amp;qid=1675802556&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C254&amp;sr=1-2">⁠https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Uncharted-Life-Collapsed-Remained/dp/1958179450/ref=sr_1_2?crid=QCBPPW5PEKVU&amp;keywords=Glimpses+of+an+Uncharted+Life&amp;qid=1675802556&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C254&amp;sr=1-2⁠</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Dick Shriver and his wife, Barbara, spent 8 years living and working in the Soviet Union and</p> <p>post-Soviet Ukraine. Dick earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell</p> <p>University and a master's degree in industrial engineering at Ohio State University. He worked</p> <p>for Exxon before starting his own technology consulting firm. He later did two tours with the US</p> <p>Government at the level of Assistant Secretary at the Defense and Treasury Departments. He</p> <p>held Senior Executive Positions at Chase Manhattan Bank and McGraw-Hill. In 1990, he taught</p> <p>International Finance, Marketing and Trade to 31 communists in the inaugural year of the first</p> <p>western-style business school in the Soviet Union, the International Management Institute &ndash;</p> <p>Kiev (Ukraine). As Vice President of the International Executive Service Corps, Shriver sent over</p> <p>1,000 American Executives into the former Soviet Union to assist in private sector development.</p> <p>He founded a non-profit, Center for International Management Education (CIME) which</p> <p>promoted &ldquo;democracy and free enterprise inside the Soviet Union&rdquo;. CIME's main programs</p> <p>involved the development of a rule of law program for the government of an independent</p> <p>Estonia and economic development in Western Ukraine. Toward the end of his 51 years of</p> <p>continuous work, he became provost and a member of the founding group of the European</p> <p>College of Liberal Arts (now Bard College Berlin). Shriver has recei