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 — Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union — and in Washington with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the U.S. Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

Part history, part memoir, the book takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy — communicating directly with the people of other countries — can accomplish, providing examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high.