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A Professional Foreigner : Life in Diplomacy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : Potomac Books, Incorporated, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781640125834
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Professional ForeignerDDC classification:
  • 327.730092
LOC classification:
  • E748.K374 M375 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Taking the Oath -- 2. About Diplomats -- 3. Apprenticeship -- 4. Nairobi, Nuevo Laredo, Luanda -- 5. Zambia -- 6. The Belgian World -- 7. Guinea-Bissau -- 8. Guinea-Bissau Politics and Economics -- 9. Cape Verde -- 10. Fort McNair -- 11. Colombo -- 12. The Diplomatic Village -- 13. Ethnic Strife in the "Blessed Isle" -- 14. Winding Up -- 15. Turtle Bay -- 16. Washington Entr'actes -- 17. Three Years before the Mast -- Epilogue -- Index -- About Edward Marks -- Illustrations.
Summary: A Professional Foreigner describes the life of an American diplomat, one often out of the view of the media and the attention of the world, during the last four decades of the twentieth century.
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Intro -- Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Taking the Oath -- 2. About Diplomats -- 3. Apprenticeship -- 4. Nairobi, Nuevo Laredo, Luanda -- 5. Zambia -- 6. The Belgian World -- 7. Guinea-Bissau -- 8. Guinea-Bissau Politics and Economics -- 9. Cape Verde -- 10. Fort McNair -- 11. Colombo -- 12. The Diplomatic Village -- 13. Ethnic Strife in the "Blessed Isle" -- 14. Winding Up -- 15. Turtle Bay -- 16. Washington Entr'actes -- 17. Three Years before the Mast -- Epilogue -- Index -- About Edward Marks -- Illustrations.

A Professional Foreigner describes the life of an American diplomat, one often out of the view of the media and the attention of the world, during the last four decades of the twentieth century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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