Description This action-packed memoir by a leading American diplomat provides provocative reflections on events and leaders, American and foreign, 1959 to 1989. ambassador (ret.) and former president, American Academy of Diplomacy..
S. "Ambassador Dean comes across in this memoir as exactly what he is Ambassador Dean comes across in this memoir as exactly what he is Ambassador Dean comes across in this memoir as exactly what he is a dedicated and talented man deeply proud of his record in the practice of American diplomacy." Bruce Laingen, U.
Whitbeck, international lawyer and author of The World According to Whitbeck. "Dean\'s career reflects his strongly held belief that America should lead through the good example of its own principled behavior and decency, not through brute force and threats." John V. ambassador to Greece.
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Keeley, author, publisher, career diplomat, and former U. "A thoroughly readable, even fascinating, account of Dean\'s life and experiences as one of America\'s top twentieth-century diplomats." Robert V.
He was notably willing to work with anyone and everyone-communists and capitalists, diplomats and spies, urbanites and peasants, entrenched leaders and emerging reformers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.
As ambassador in Cambodia, he was the last man out on April 12, 1975, as the last helicopter left Phnom Penh and Khmer Rouge forces approached the city.
He brokered the deal that ended the war in Laos and faced down an attempted coup d\' tat in 1973 against the neutralist regime of Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma. military in Central Vietnam in the early 1970s.
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Serving several stints in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, he worked on development projects in all three countries and with the U.
Over the course of his career, Ambassador Dean found himself embroiled in controversy in hot spots in Asia and the Middle East.
Description This action-packed memoir by a leading American diplomat provides provocative reflections on events and leaders, American and foreign, 1959 to 1989
