Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

The Zin Zin Road (1966) about Peace Corps workers in Africa caught in a brewing revolution. Crossing in Berlin (1981) about an American man assisting an East German woman in escaping East Germany. This seemed to ignite a passion for writing books and he turned his hand to book-length works.

Knebel was born in Dayton Ohio but moved a number of times during his youth. Fletcher Knebel (October 1 1911 – February 26 1993) was an American author of several popular works of political fiction. Bailey) about an attempted military coup in the United States.