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Danger Zones is the autobiography of John Gunther Dean, a career Foreign Service officer, five-time U.S. ambassador, and a leading diplomat of the twentieth century. Published by New Academia Publishing, his book is the 12th in the ADST Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series. It is drawn from documents, including the author’s oral history, now housed in the U.S. National Archives at the Carter Center Library in Atlanta. Over the course of his action-packed career, Dean found himself embroiled in controversy in hot spots in Asia and the Middle East. On one of several stints in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, he worked with the U.S. military as deputy for CORDS in Central Vietnam and helped to protect the famous Cham Museum in Danang, the leading tourist attraction in Vietnam today. In Laos, he brokered the deal that ended a war, and he faced down an attempted coup d’etat in 1973 against the neutralist regime of Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma. In Cambodia, he was the last man out on April 12, 1975, on the last helicopter that left Phnom Penh as Khmer Rouge forces approached the city. In Lebanon, where he was nearly assassinated in an ambush, he reached out to all factions and promoted the idea of one Lebanon. As an activist diplomat throughout his career, he worked hard to bring people together to avoid bloodshed.
Danger Zones
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Dean, John Gunther Diplomats, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Danger Zones is the autobiography of John Gunther Dean, a career Foreign Service officer, five-time U.S. ambassador, and a leading diplomat of the twentieth century. Published by New Academia Publishing, his book is the 12th in the ADST Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series. It is drawn from documents, including the...

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Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy
Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy
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Heimann, Judith M. Diplomats, Diplomats and Diplomacy

Judy Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join her husband, John, in Jakarta at his American Embassy post, setting her on a path across the continents as she mastered the fine points of diplomatic culture. Drawn from memories of fifty years of life in the U.S. Foreign Service...

This memoir of Theresa Tull’s thirty-three-year career as a twentieth-century diplomat begins with recollections of her childhood during the Second World War in the small town of Runnemede, New Jersey, and culminates with her two ambassadorial appointments. Her first overseas assignment as a Foreign Service officer, at Embassy Brussels, was followed by a year of Vietnamese language training. Her FSO career took her to Saigon just in time for the Tet Offensive of 1968. In September 1970 she returned to Washington to work on internal Vietnamese politics in the Vietnam Working Group. In August 1973 she returned to Vietnam as deputy principal officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Da Nang, where she remained until the fall of South Vietnam in April 1975, when she organized and oversaw the consulate’s evacuation. Other assignments included the Intelligence and Research Bureau, consul in Cebu, the Philippines, the National War College, office director in the Human Rights Bureau, the Senior Seminar, diplomat-in-residence at Lincoln University, and director, Office of Regional Affairs, East Asia and Pacific Bureau. As chargé d’affaires in Laos in 1983, she negotiated and oversaw the first joint crash-site excavation to seek the remains of missing U.S. servicemen. In 1987 President Reagan appointed her ambassador to Guyana, and in 1993 President Clinton named her his ambassador to Brunei. The book includes stories of Tull’s early life and education. It tracks her father’s death, her initial education, post–high school employment, and early college education. In 1963, without a college degree and after successfully passing the rigorous entrance examinations, Terry Tull entered the U.S. Foreign Service. She later received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, and in 1973 earned a master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.
A Long Way from Runnemede
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Tull, Theresa Diplomats, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

This memoir of Theresa Tull’s thirty-three-year career as a twentieth-century diplomat begins with recollections of her childhood during the Second World War in the small town of Runnemede, New Jersey, and culminates with her two ambassadorial appointments. Her first overseas assignment as a Foreign Service officer, at Embassy Brussels, was...

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Peregrina
Peregrina
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Young, Ginny Carson Diplomats, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Peregrina is the story of Ginny Carson Young, a young Foreign Service widow and mother who finds an unexpected second life as an American consular officer in India, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Romania. She deals with the hippies of the 1970s in New Delhi, is courted in Hong Kong by...

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