Arabian Nights and Daze
Arabian Nights and Daze: Living in Yemen with the Foreign Service provides a timely and needed understanding and appreciation for…
Peck’s Postulates
Ambassador (ret.) Edward L. Peck presents a concise, organized framework for navigating international relations in Peck’s Postulates, a new volume…
Not to the Manner Born
In 2001 Helen Lyman began writing about the more humorous incidents she witnessed as the wife of an American diplomat.…
Forever on the Road
Nicole Prévost Logan’s overview of the life and work of an American diplomatic family over thirty years in ten countries…
From Foggy Bottom to Capitol Hill
John Chapman “Chips” Chester offers up an often whimsical but highly informative memoir of an active life in international affairs.…
Bridge Between Worlds
In this personal, multifaceted memoir, Hala Buck, a professional artist and integrative therapist, reflects on her mixed Muslim and Christian…
In Those Days: A Diplomat Remembers
If the twentieth century was the American Century, James Spain was its classic product. From Chicago in 1926 to Sri…
A New Vision for America: Toward Human Solidarity, A Memoir
In a lively, personal style with self-deprecating humor, John Richardson traces the evolution of his worldview from his prep school…
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist
Dick Parker was renowned in the State Department for his dry acerbic wit. From his early youth on U.S. Cavalry posts…
The Incidental Oriental Secretary and Other Tales of Foreign Service
Dick Jackson captures the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education.…