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-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Foreign Service.

United States.

Diplomatic and consular service, American.

Diplomacy.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 166 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

:Ambassador Seymour Finger provides an insider's view of American diplomacy since World War II, including many of its leaders, and of the changing American Foreign Service. He also offers proposals to equip the Foreign Service for the challenges of the 21st century.

Contents:

A boy grows in Brooklyn President Truman's proclamation : my entry into the Foreign Service Embassy Paris Behind the Iron Curtain : Budapest The Harvard interlude and Rome Life in Laos Life in the big time : Henry Cabot Lodge and the United Nations Adlai Stevenson Arthur J. Goldberg : a justice comes to the UN Charles Yost and the Nixon-Kissinger years George Bush : a future president at the UN Life after the Foreign Service A Foreign Service for the 21st century

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9798400670596

9786610926886

9781280926884

1280926880

9780313074165

031307416X

9780313048579

0313048576

OCLC:

57715079