A biography of Linda Bithell Oliver at age 60. Published on her 60th birthday, this book documents the life of a woman from rural eastern Idaho, where she grows up on the edge of her beloved desert (and the United States' experimental nuclear reactor facility), only to leave home to marry a sailor and experience the world. Her life as a reporter, teacher, mother, small business owner, lawyer, CEO and senior civil servant is told against the background of the Cold War and Linda's personal experiences in our Federal Government, as well as the Far East, Europe, Russian and Iraq.