Book Category: Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Jane C. Loeffler, a scholar in architectural history and American civilization, extensively researched the history and politics of U.S. embassy design and building, focusing on the years following World War II. These high-profile, often controversial structures––projections abroad of American art, culture, and political philosophy––have formed the settings for the conduct of...

Drawing upon fifty ADST-created oral histories and one from Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker weaves together a wide r range of interviews with key players in making and executing U.S. policy toward China since World War II. Interviewees included Arthur Hummel, James Lilley, John Stewart Service, Winston Lord, Marshall...