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…
In Those Days: A Diplomat Remembers
If the twentieth century was the American Century, James Spain was its classic product. From Chicago in 1926 to Sri…
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…
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…
A Professional Foreigner
In A Professional Foreigner (Potomac Books/U of Nebraska Press), volume #74 in the Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, Ambassador Edward Marks…
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,…
Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal
Stephen Grant’s Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal is based on extensive research, including U.S. consular dispatches,…
Raising the Flag: America’s First Envoys in Faraway Lands
Since its inception, the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas…