Abroad for her country : tales of a pioneer woman ambassador in the U.S. Foreign Service / Jean M. Wilkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkowski, Jean M., 1919-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

Women ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Women ambassadors.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

Wilkowski, Jean M., 1919-.

Wilkowski, Jean M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jean M. Wilkowski shares the story of her extraordinary career in the U.S. Foreign Service during the last half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Series page

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. Early Years, 1926- 44

2. Trinidad, BWI, 1944-46 (Vice Consul)

3. Bogotá, Colombia, 1947-48 (Third Secretary-Economic)

4. Milan, Italy, 1949-51 (Vice Consul)

5. Paris, France, 1953-56 (Deputy Commercial Attaché)

6. Santiago, Chile, 1957-59 (Second Secretary)

7. Interim Assignments: GATT Tariff Negotiations, 1960-61

Senior Seminar, 1962-63

Diplomat in Residence in California, 1976- 77

8. Rome, Italy, 1963-66 (Second Secretary), 1969-72 (Commercial Counselor

Minister/Counselor for Economic Affairs)

9. Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1966-69 (Deputy Chief of Mission

Chargé d'Affaires a.i.)

10. Lusaka, Zambia, 1972-76 (U.S. Ambassador, Chief of Mission)

11. To State and the United Nations, 1977-80 (Father Ted, China, and Vienna)

12. Later Years, 1980- 2000

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

"An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book"--P. facing t.p.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780268096571

0268096570

OCLC:

712995181