Full Title
Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer
Description
Bush Hat, Black Tie is a novelist's wry, firsthand look at life
as an American diplomat. Howard R. Simpson takes the reader on his
own challenging assignments in wartime French Indochina, Nigeria,
France, wartime South Vietnam, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Algeria,
and the United States, as he witnesses the end of the colonial era
and serves in the diplomatic front lines of the Cold War. Thoroughly
dispelling the stuffy, "striped pants" image of diplomacy, he
reveals the often strange, always interesting realities of
representing one's country overseas, whether while wearing a bush
hat in the battlefields of Indochina or a tuxedo at the Cannes Film
Festival. The colorful personalities he encounters along the way
range from Dwight Eisenhower and Charles DeGaulle to Alfred
Hitchcock and Henry Miller.
Author
Howard R. Simpson |