The October War: A Retrospective
This often surprising book shares firsthand accounts and frank discussions from a meeting held in October 1998 on the twenty-fifth…
Witness to a Changing World
Witness to a Changing World is the life story of David Dunlop Newsom, a Foreign Service officer who rose through the…
Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education
Robert Hopkins Miller’s forty-year Foreign Service career, from 1951 to 1991, spanned virtually the entire Cold War. Miller worked on…
Escape With Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam
During a 37-year Foreign Service career, Terry McNamara had three postings in Vietnam—as provincial adviser with the CORDS program, first…
Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy
Judy Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join her husband, John, in Jakarta at his American Embassy post,…
Behind Embassy Walls: The Life and Times of an American Diplomat
Son of an international oilman and a Polish émigré, Grove grew up largely in prewar Europe: in Nazi Germany, Holland,…
Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar
Diversifying Diplomacy tells the story of Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas, a young black woman who beat the odds and challenged the…
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…
The State Department Boys: Philippine Diplomacy and Its American Heritage
Here is the untold story of how, in the wake of independence in July 1946, the U.S. Department of State and…
The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures
Ambassador Herman J. “Hank” Cohen decided early in his 38-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service to specialize in African…