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Where liberty dwells, there is my country : the story of twentieth-century American ambassadors to France / Craig Roberts Stapleton with Louise French McCready.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stapleton, Craig Roberts.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ambassadors--United States.
- Ambassadors.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States.
- France--Foreign relations--20th century.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Authors' presentation copies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of biographies of twentieth-century U.S. ambassadors to France explores their personal and professional lives, highlighting accomplishments and challenges in Franco-American relations and world history. These men demonstrated courage, intelligence, and character in their attempts to encourage French cooperation in furthering joint diplomatic goals and ideals of peace.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Horace Porter 1897-1905; Chapter 2. Robert Sanderson McCormick 1905-1907; Chapter 3. Henry White 1907-1909; Chapter 4. Robert Bacon 1910-1912; Chapter 5. Myron Timothy Herrick 1912-1914; 1921-1929; Chapter 6. William Graves Sharp 1914-1919; Chapter 7. Hugh Campbell Wallace 1919-1921; Chapter 8. Walter Evans Edge 1929-1933; Chapter 9. Jesse Isidor Straus 1933-1936; Chapter 10. William Christian Bullitt 1936-1940; Chapter 11. William Daniel Leahy 1940-1942; Chapter 12. Jefferson Caffery 1944-1949; Chapter 13. David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce 1949-1952
- Chapter 14. James Clement Dunn 1952-1953Chapter 15. C. Douglas Dillon 1953-1957; Chapter 16. Amory Houghton 1957-1961; Chapter 17. James Maurice Gavin 1961-1962; Chapter 18. Charles Eustis Bohlen 1962-1968; Chapter 19. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. 1968-1970; Chapter 20. Arthur Kittredge (Dick) Watson 1970-1972; Chapter 21. John (Jack) Nichol Irwin, II 1973-1974; Chapter 22. David Kenneth Rush 1974-1977; Chapter 23. Arthur A. Hartman 1977-1981; Conclusion
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-8867-5
- 0-7618-5143-7
- 1-282-82019-2
- 9786612820199
- 0-7618-5144-5
- OCLC:
- 697613332
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