The Road to Home

My Life and Times

By: Vartan Gregorian

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Paperback | 7 May 2004 | Edition Number 1

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In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world.

Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a provincial city (thought by some to be the location of the Garden of Eden). Childhood centered on his brilliant, beloved, illiterate grandmother who taught him so much, the beauty of Church, school, American movies, and the larger world he read about in his borrowed books. From there, he continued on to a Beirut lycee, Stanford University, and the presidencies of the New York Public Library, Brown University, and Carnegie Corporation.

Like Jimmy Carter in "An Hour Before Daylight," and in the tradition of Nabokov, Jill Ker Conway, and V. S. Naipaul, he tells us that education is an openness to everything, and describes his public and private life as one education after another. This is a love story about life.

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David McCullough Vartan Gregorian is one of the most gifted and accomplished men of our time, and to have his "journey" in his own words, told with all his sparkle and wisdom, is pure gold.

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Introduction: My Birthplace	p. 1
My Family	p. 7
Childhood	p. 25
The Armenian Community of Tabriz	p. 39
To Beirut, Le Petit Paris	p. 63
To America	p. 95
Stanford University: A New World	p. 107
The Long Road to Kabul	p. 147
San Francisco State College	p. 161
To Armenia: Land of Ararat	p. 177
To Texas	p. 197
The City of Brotherly Love	p. 215
A Rendezvous with the New York Public Library	p. 267
Brown University	p. 305
Postscript	p. 327
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Index	p. 339
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