Inside the world of diplomacy : the U.S. Foreign Service in a changing world / Seymour M. Finger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finger, Seymour Maxwell, 1915-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Foreign Service.

United States.

Diplomatic and consular service, American.

Diplomacy.

Foreign relations administration.

History.

United States--Foreign relations administration--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 166 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Offers an insider's view of American diplomacy since World War II.

Contents:

I A Boy Grows in Brooklyn 1

II President Truman's Proclamation: My Entry into the Foreign Service 5

III Embassy Paris 9

IV Behind the Iron Curtain

Budapest 13

V The Harvard Interlude and Rome 17

VI Life in Laos 21

VII Life in the Big Time: Henry Cabot Lodge and the United Nations 27

VIII Adlai Stevenson 47

IX Arthur J. Goldberg: A Justice Comes to the UN 91

X Charles Yost and the Nixon-Kissinger Years 127

XI George Bush

A Future President at the UN 141

XII Life after the Foreign Service 149

XIII A Foreign Service for the 21st Century 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-161) and index.

ISBN:

0275970256

OCLC:

47002233