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Journey to Ithaka: Memoirs of an American Diplomat

Author : Dave Grimland
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483434028
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Journey to Ithaka: Memoirs of an American Diplomat written by Dave Grimland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dave Grimland journeys from his roots in Texas to his final home in Montana via stops in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bangladesh, and India--like Odysseus traveling home to Ithaka. As a member of the American diplomatic service, he had the rare opportunity to learn about other cultures and religions in a series of exciting and occasionally dangerous adventures, including a 1974 stop in Cyprus, where he found himself caught in the middle of a coup that would transform the region's politcal landscape. Some of the stories are funnny, others are sad, but all of them entertaining and informative. Take a deeper look into other cultures, and gain new perspectives on old, vexing problems with a Journey to Ithaka."--Back cover.

The Diplomat: A Memoir of Life in the US Foreign Service (1943-1970)

Author : Kennedy M. Crockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578737621
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Diplomat: A Memoir of Life in the US Foreign Service (1943-1970) written by Kennedy M. Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy Crockett was 23 when he joined the United States Foreign Service. It was 1943, the U.S. was at war, and he'd been turned down by the armed services because of poor eyesight.Crockett started out as a shipping clerk determined to climb the ranks--and have a good time in the process. He retired 27 years later as a U.S. ambassador, having served 10 posts in six countries. THE DIPLOMAT is the story of the years in between--an insider's look at the grind and the gratification of life as a US diplomat. Between banana boats and revolutions, presidents and dictators, politics and diplomacy, Crockett managed to hunt and fish in the jungles and shores of Mexico and Central America, raise five children, and savor all that his life and career had to offer.

A Long Way from Runnemede

Author : Theresa Tull
Publisher : Vellum
ISBN 13 : 9780984583294
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book A Long Way from Runnemede written by Theresa Tull and published by Vellum. This book was released on 2012 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This memoir of Theresa Tull's career as a twentieth-century diplomat begins with childhood recollections of life during the Second World War in the small town of Runnemede, New Jersey. It tracks the death of the author's father, her initial education, post-high school employment, and early college education. In 1963, after successfully passing the rigorous entrance examinations, Terry Tull entered the U.S. Foreign Service. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, and in 1973 earned a master's degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan. Service at Embassy Brussels was followed by a year of Vietnamese language training. Her career as an FSO took her to Saigon just in time for the Tet Offensive of 1968. In September 1970 she returned to Washington to work on internal Vietnamese politics on the Vietnam Working Group. In August 1973 she returned to Vietnam as deputy principal officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Da Nang, where she remained until the fall of South Vietnam in the spring of 1975, when she organized and oversaw the consulate's evacuation. Other assignments included the Intelligence and Research Bureau, Consul in Cebu, the Philippines, the National War College, Office Director for Human Rights in the Human Rights Bureau, the Senior Seminar, Diplomat in Residence at Lincoln University, and director, Office of Regional Affairs, East Asia and Pacific Bureau. As chargé d'affaires in Laos in 1983, she negotiated and oversaw the first joint crash-site excavation to seek the remains of missing U.S. servicemen. In 1987 President Reagan appointed her Ambassador to Guyana, and in 1993 President Clinton named her his ambassador to Brunei." -- Publisher's website.

The Unofficial Diplomat

Author : Joanne Grady Huskey
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0982386729
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Unofficial Diplomat written by Joanne Grady Huskey and published by New Academia Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling political thriller, colorful adventure story, and well-written travelogue, "The Unofficial Diplomat" provides a revealing behind-the-scenes glimpse of what life is really like for diplomats and their families as they face the challenges of representing the United States while seeking to carve out a semblance of normal existence in a tumultuous world.

American Diplomats

Author : William D. Morgan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595329748
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book American Diplomats written by William D. Morgan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the men and women of America's diplomatic corps do? William D. Morgan and Charles Stuart Kennedy, themselves career diplomats, culled over 1400 oral interviews with their Foreign Service peers to present forty excerpts covering events from the 1920s to the 1990s. Insiders recount what happens when a consul spies on Nazi Germany, Mao Tse-Tung drops by for a chat, the Cold War begins with the Berlin blockade, the Marshall Plan rescues Europe, Sukarno moves Indonesia into the communist camp, Khrushchev calls President Kennedy an SOB, and our ambassador is murdered in Kabul. "You are there" accounts deepen readers' understanding, as diplomatic and consular officers talk about the beginnings of Kremlinology, predicting a coup in Ecuador, Hemingway and the embassy in Havana, the secret formulation of the NATO treaty, Jerusalem after the British and the US recognition of Israel, fighting in the Congo over Katangan secession, dealing with an alcoholic foreign president, human rights work in Paraguay, the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, helping families of the Pan Am 103 victims, Greece and Turkey at odds over a tiny island, embassy roles in Riyadh and Tel Aviv during Desert Storm, and many more.

American Diplomacy in Turkey

Author : James William Spain
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780275912741
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book American Diplomacy in Turkey written by James William Spain and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diplomatic memoir deals with two subjects: the first is Turkey during the six months before and the year after the September 12, 1980 military takeover of the government. The second is american foreign policy: how it is made and carried out abroad.

Proud Servant

Author : Ellis Briggs
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385886
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Proud Servant written by Ellis Briggs and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1925. During the next 37 years, he was ambassador to seven countries. He also served in Cuba, Chile, Liberia, and China. This is a collected volume of his memoirs.

Outpost

Author : Christopher R. Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451685912
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Outpost written by Christopher R. Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “inside the room” memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in a career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat. Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq. Hill’s account is an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton), of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.

Three Embassies, Four Wars

Author : Ronald E. Neumann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781543454055
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Three Embassies, Four Wars written by Ronald E. Neumann and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Embassies, Four Wars, is a finely honed insider's account of the challenges American diplomats face in hammering out policies to deal with an increasingly turbulent Islamic World. It's also a great story of what a life in the U.S. Foreign Service is really like. ...Neumann offers many cogent insights into the ways a skilled, well-trained diplomat can handle seemingly never-ending crises and promote important U.S. interests. Ambassador Howard B. Schaffer Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

Nelson's Encyclopaedia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Nelson's Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paying Calls in Shangri-La

Author : Judith M. Heimann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821422335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Paying Calls in Shangri-La written by Judith M. Heimann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith M. Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join her husband, John, in Jakarta, Indonesia, at his American Embassy post. This, her first time out of the United States, would set her on a path across the continents as she mastered the fine points of diplomatic culture. She did so first as a spouse, then as a diplomat herself, thus becoming part of one of the Foreign Service's first tandem couples. Heimann's lively recollections of her life in Africa, Asia, and Europe show us that when it comes to reconciling our government's requirements with the other government's wants, shuttle diplomacy, Skype, and email cannot match on-the-ground interaction. The ability to gauge and finesse gesture, tone of voice, and unspoken assumptions became her stock-in-trade as she navigated, time and again, remarkably delicate situations. This insightful and witty memoir gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a rarely explored experience: that of one of the very first married female diplomats, who played an unsung but significant role in some of the important international events of the past fifty years. To those who know something of today's world of diplomacy, Paying Calls in Shangri-La will be an enlightening tour through the way it used to be--and for aspiring Foreign Service officers and students, it will be an inspiration. Published in association with ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series

Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3

Author : Blanche Wiesen Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109626
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 written by Blanche Wiesen Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." -- The Wall Street Journal The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. “Monumental and inspirational…Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years… [a] grand biography.” -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR’s death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues—economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue—when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. These years—the war years—made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDR’s death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations. This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique.

Danger Zones

Author : John Gunther Dean
Publisher : Vellum
ISBN 13 : 9780982386705
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Danger Zones written by John Gunther Dean and published by Vellum. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger Zones is the autobiography of John Gunther Dean, a leading American diplomat of the twentieth century. His early life and eventful international career provide provocative reflections on significant events and leaders, American and foreign, and insights and advice on the practice of proactive diplomacy. Over the course of his action-packed career, Dean found himself embroiled in controversy in hot spots in Asia and the Middle East. During several stints in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, he worked on development projects and with the U.S. military in Central Vietnam. He brokered the deal that ended the war in Laos and faced down an attempted coup d'état in 1973 against the neutralist regime of Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma. As ambassador in Cambodia, he was the last man out on April 12, 1975, as the last helicopter left Phnom Penh and Khmer Rouge forces approached the city. As ambassador to Lebanon, where he was nearly assassinated in an ambush, he reached out to all factions and promoted the idea of one Lebanon. As ambassador in Thailand, he worked closely with King Bhumibol to provide military training to the Thai army and secure U.S. military bases. As an activist diplomat, he worked hard to bring people together to avoid bloodshed.--Publisher description.

Fragments of Our Time

Author : Martin J. Hillenbrand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820357072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Our Time written by Martin J. Hillenbrand and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a high-ranking American diplomat during the Cold War, Martin J. Hillenbrand was witness to some of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century history. Fragments of Our Time is a richly detailed, gracefully written account of a career that spanned seven presidencies and more than half a century. After stints in Africa and Asia, the bulk of Hillenbrand's career was spent in Europe. He recounts with authority his experiences in postwar Germany, his involvement with the Cuban missile crisis, his appointment as the first American ambassador to Hungary, and his posts as assistant secretary of state for European affairs and ambassador to Germany. Hillenbrand writes with a keen wit and discerning eye of the people and events that shaped contemporary American foreign policy.

The Greater Journey

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576894
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History

Author : Timothy J. Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199759251
Total Pages : 1489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History written by Timothy J. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •Entries written by renowned diplomatic and military historians as well as key scholars in international relations •Provides assessments and analyses of key episodes, issues and actors in the military and diplomatic history of the United States •Based on the award-winning Oxford Companion to United States History •Comprehensive collection of entries that span the founding of the U.S. to its present state •Offers a wide range of perspectives to provide an encompassing context of the United States' military and diplomatic legacies •Expansive bibliographies and suggested readings for each article to aid in research The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, a two-volume set, will offer both assessment and analysis of the key episodes, issues and actors in the military and diplomatic history of the United States. At a time of war, in which ongoing efforts to recalibrate American diplomacy are as imperative as they are perilous, the Oxford Encyclopedia will present itself as the first recourse for scholars wishing to deepen their understanding of the crucial features of the historical and contemporary foreign policy landscape and its perennially martial components. Entries will be written by the top diplomatic and military historians and key scholars of international relations from within the American academy, supplemented, as is appropriate for an encyclopedia of diplomacy, with entries from foreign-based academics, in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The crucial importance of the subject is reflected in the popularity of university courses dedicated to diplomatic and military history and the enduring appeal of international relations (IR) as a political science discipline drawing on both. The Oxford Encyclopedia will be a basic reference tool across both disciplines - a potentially very significant market. Readership: University-level undergraduate and graduate students in History

Privileged Witness

Author : Arshad-uz Zaman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Privileged Witness written by Arshad-uz Zaman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privileged Witness is a journey through history and with the makers of history. Written by a former diplomat, the narrative covers a period of fifty years and takes the reader through important events in the history of Pakistan and Bangladesh. It touches on many important world leaders including Ismet Inonu, Rauf Orbay, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni.