Brown, Gordon S.
Before turning to historical and analytical writing, Gordon Brown served thirty-five years in the Foreign Service, mainly in the Middle East and North Africa, including assignments as ambassador to Mauritania and political advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf War. He is also the author of Coalition, Coercion and Compromise: Diplomacy of the Gulf Crisis, 1990–1991 (1997) and The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily (2003).
In Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution, former ambassador Gordon Brown relates how America’s early leaders and their diplomatic representatives dealt with the politically sensitive issue of the 1790–1810 slave rebellion in Haiti led by Toussaint L’Ouverture. Founding fathers George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and...