Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love and Revolution

by Susan Eisenhower

The story of the romance and marriage of an American president's granddaughter and Russia's top rocket scientist is a real-life saga of two people whose lives and work represent the issues that kept... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374262462
• ISBN13: 9780374262464
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Like living through history, and romance to boot

Susan Eisenhower tells the story of her relationship with a Soviet Union "insider," and how it all played out in history. If you are interested in how the Soviet Union fell, or if you like a good romance that has some intrigue, this book is for you. It is the kind of book that makes you wish you could meet the players involved and talk about it.

Better Than Fiction

Prominent Soviet scientist falls in love with granddaughter of American President - it sounds like fodder for a best selling novel, so it's all the more remarkable for being true. Susan Eisenhower's account of her love affair with and eventual marriage to Roald Sagdeev is the fascinating story of two people defying the odds of the Cold War to make a life together. From their burgeoning courtship through the maze of beaurocracy they needed to overcome, their story is two-fold: the age-old tale of boy meets girl played out against the intricate politics of a world in transition.