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The ambassadors : America's diplomats on the front lines
- Title
- The ambassadors : America's diplomats on the front lines / Paul Richter.
- Author
- Richter, Paul (Paul R.)
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The State Department's heroes are the front-line diplomats who have been unheralded, but crucial in the line of national defense for two decades of wars in the Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who do the hardest things in the hardest places." --Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Crocker, Ryan C. 1949-
- Ford, Robert Stephen
- Stevens, John Christopher, 1960-2012
- Patterson, Anne Woods, 1949-
- Ambassadors > United States
- Diplomats > United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
- Ambassadors
- Diplomatic relations
- Diplomats
- United States > Foreign relations > Islamic countries
- Islamic countries > Foreign relations > United States
- United States > Foreign relations > Middle East
- Middle East > Foreign relations > United States
- Islamic countries
- Middle East
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-305) and index.
- Contents
- Cast of characters -- Timeline of events -- The best people for the worst places -- Go figure something out -- The prefect storm -- A government of one -- With us and against us -- Talent hunt -- From enemies, friends -- Not peace but more peaceful -- Lost in translation -- The lid stays on -- Flowers, and stones, for the ambassador -- Envoy to the rebels -- The long goodbye -- Libya loses a friend -- Arab spring and fall -- In good conscience -- Cool heads in hot spots.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2915
- ISBN
- 9781501172410
- 1501172417
- 9781501172427 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019287191
- OCLC
- 1125007125
- Author
- Richter, Paul (Paul R.), author.
- Title
- The ambassadors : America's diplomats on the front lines / Paul Richter.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-305) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2915