California
Contributions by Californians in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in California have made important contributions to America’s…
Alabama
Contributions by Alabamians in the Foreign Service People born, raised, or educated in Alabama have made important contributions to America’s…
Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service
Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service, published by the University of…
China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996
Drawing upon fifty ADST-created oral histories and one from Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker weaves together a wide r…
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist
Dick Parker was renowned in the State Department for his dry acerbic wit. From his early youth on U.S. Cavalry posts…
The Man in the Arena: The Life and the Times of U.S. Senator Gale McGee
There was a time when Wyoming and other Rocky Mountain and midwestern states were as likely to elect a liberal…
The Architecture Of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies
Jane C. Loeffler, a scholar in architectural history and American civilization, extensively researched the history and politics of U.S. embassy design…
Crossing the Divide: An Insider’s Account of the Normalization of U.S.-China Relations
Former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific John H. Holdridge was intimately involved in the historic…
Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the United States Information Agency
Wilson Dizard offers the first comprehensive account of public diplomacy’s evolution within the U.S. foreign policy establishment, ranging from World…
Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia
Chuck Cross spent much of his youth and adult life in China and elsewhere in East Asia, garnering insights and…