Grove, Brandon
In retirement Brandon Grove serves on leading foreign affairs councils. He has chaired the editorial board of the Foreign Service Journal, authored an essay on Zaire in the Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, and taught a course on diplomacy at Hamilton College. In this book, Brandon Grove reveals a fine sense of time and place — and of humor — while contributing throughout to the historical record.
Son of an international oilman and a Polish émigré, Grove grew up largely in prewar Europe: in Nazi Germany, Holland, and Spain. He recounts his friendship with William Faulkner during undergraduate days at Bard College, his Navy service during the Korean War, and his 35-year diplomatic career in Africa, Europe,...