Full Title
American Ambassadors in a Troubled World: Interviews with Senior
Diplomats
Description
How do American citizens become ambassadors, and how do they
serve U.S. interests overseas? What is embassy life really like? How
do ambassadors deal with host governments and officials back in
Washington? Seventy-four senior diplomats provide real insights and
practical lessons into the business of being an American ambassador
today in a troubled world. They talk informally about their
motivations for a foreign service career, their appointments as
ambassadors or senior envoys, their training, the management of an
embassy, problems in dealing with heads of state and Washington
bureaucracy, serious crises, terrorism, coups, and other violence in
the 1970s and 1980s.
Authors
Dayton Mak and Charles Stuart Kennedy, former foreign service
officers, are in the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program at
Georgetown University. |