Life as a Foreign Service spouse is constantly evolving, particularly for Foreign Service wives. While the State Department is now…
Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service
Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service, published by the University of…
Eye on the World: A Life in International Service
Eye on the World is the autobiography of diplomat Anthony C. E. Quainton, the story of a long and varied…
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…
A Professional Foreigner
In A Professional Foreigner (Potomac Books/U of Nebraska Press), volume #74 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, Ambassador Edward Marks…
The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service, 1776-1924
As a British colony Americans relied on the far-flung British consular system to take care of their sailors and merchants.…
Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy
Judy Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join her husband, John, in Jakarta at his American Embassy post,…
Behind Embassy Walls: The Life and Times of an American Diplomat
Son of an international oilman and a Polish émigré, Grove grew up largely in prewar Europe: in Nazi Germany, Holland,…
Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia
Chuck Cross spent much of his youth and adult life in China and elsewhere in East Asia, garnering insights and…
Foreign at Home and Away: Foreign-Born Wives in the U.S. Foreign Service
It is estimated that one-third to one-half of the women married to U.S. Foreign Service officers are foreign-born. In Foreign at…