Richmond, Yale
Yale Richmond has forty years of “hands on” experience in international affairs as a Foreign Service officer, congressional staffer, and foundation program officer. His major work experience has been cultural, educational, information, and scientific exchanges with the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe, with which he negotiated fourteen intergovernmental agreements. In retirement he has devoted himself to writing and public speaking. He is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles and eight books, one of which, From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians, published in a 4th edition, sold more than 30,000 copies and has been translated into Chinese and Korean editions. Two other Yale Richmond books have also appeared in Chinese-language editions.
Yale Richmond’s latest book, Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey, published by Berghahn Books of Oxford and New York, is the thirty-second volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. In it Richmond details the doings of a U.S. Foreign Service cultural affairs officer in five Cold War hot spots...