The Ambassadorial Imperative Endangered
Review by William N. Dale

Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad By Thomas W. Zeiler (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xvii, 235. $17.95 paper.)   Liberal Missionary: The ‘Whole’ Dean Rusk By Jack Perry* IN HIS USEFUL bibliographical essay at the end of this … Read more

Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy By Douglas C. Foyle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 377. $24 paper.)   The Man in the Street and Uncle Sam and the World, Redux By David W. … Read more

On My Country and the World By Mikhail S. Gorbachev George Shriver, trans. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 300) Poor Forgotten Gorby: The First Bolshevik’s Last Apologist by Katherine A. S. Sibley POOR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV.  While his San … Read more

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator By Arthur Herman (New York: Free Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 404. $26 cloth.) McCarthy and His Enemies, Revisited by Larry I. Bland* A POLITICAL TRACT DISGUISED AS A … Read more

By Victor Fic   Years of Renewal By Henry A. Kissinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pp. 1,119. $35 cloth.)     Henry Kissinger might just refute Andy Warhol’s nostrum that every American will be famous for fifteen minutes. … Read more

  Called to Serve The Life of An American Envoy By Kenneth Vickery   Safirka: An American Envoy By Peter Bridges (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227 $24 cloth.)   A career Foreign Service officer, … Read more

Review by Hermann Fr. Eilts   Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership By Parker T. Hart (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 283. $35 cloth.)   In 1991-92, President George Bush deployed a … Read more

By Michael Cotter Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire In Central Asia By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. Pp. xxv, 573. $35 cloth Journalists Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac … Read more

By Richard Matheron Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda By Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999, Pp. 248. $23.95) I fear this cannot be an unbiased book review. I look back … Read more

By Nick Sarantakes  John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy By Richard H. Immerman (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 221.)   In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Richard Immerman was part of a … Read more

State’s Adjunct “Accidental Diplomats” Foreign Service Spouses By Linda Killen  The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse By Katherine L. Hughes (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Aletheia, 1999, Pp. x, 180. $17.95 paper) Were it not for its title, American Diplomacy … Read more

Review by Adam Yarmolinsky   The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization By Thomas L. Friedman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Pp. xix, 394. $27.50 cloth.)   Returning to Tokyo on a bullet train from a visit … Read more

Review by John M. Belohlavek Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire By Lawrence S. Kaplan (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Pp. xvii, 198 . $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.)   When Scholarly Resources sought to identify an author to … Read more

  By Nancy Mitchell   The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography By Louis A. Perez, Jr. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 168 . $16.95 paper.)   Rarely … Read more

Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance By Abraham Ben-Zvi (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 219. $17.50 paper) The Washington-Tel Aviv Axisby Paul Sullivan THE PURPOSE OF THIS WELL-WRITTEN AND highly readable … Read more