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American ambassador : Joseph C. Grew and the development of the United States diplomatic tradition / by Waldo H. Heinrichs, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinrichs, Waldo H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965.
- Grew, Joseph C.
- Ambassadors--United States--Biography.
- Ambassadors.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Japan.
- Japan--Foreign relations--United States.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (479 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1966.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The definitive biography of Grew, who was American Ambassador to Japan in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, and Under Secretary of State during the Second World War.
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; PART ONE: Background and Early Career (1880-1922); PART TWO: Diplomacy as a Profession (1922-1927); PART THREE: Ambassador to Turkey (1927-1932); PART FOUR: Far Eastern Crises (1932-1938); PART FIVE: War and Peace in the Pacific (1939-1945); EPILOGUE (1945-1965); Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1966.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987868-4
- 1-280-43957-2
- 1-4237-5843-9
- 0-19-536476-7
- 1-60129-613-4
- OCLC:
- 228171153
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