Jonestown, Guyana was the scene of one of the most harrowing tragedies in American history. On November 18, 1978, at…
The Iran Hostage Crisis– Part II
In these excerpts, Bruce Laingen, then Charge d’Affaires of U.S. Embassy Tehran and one of the “super Satans” kept hostage at the…
The Iran Hostage Crisis — Part I
November 4, 1979 – Radical Iranian students take over the U.S. embassy in Tehran and hold 52 Americans hostage. The…
The Limits of Influence
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir “This is a superb history of the…
Abroad for Her Country
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Abroad for Her Country: Tales of a Pioneer Woman Ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service…
Diplomats and Diplomacy – An ADST-DACOR Book Series
For more than 225 years extraordinary men and women have represented the United States abroad. In 1996 the Association for…
CSI: Sao Paulo — The Search for the Angel of Death
Stephen F. Dachi had one of the more unusual — and as it turned out, fateful — backgrounds of anyone…