The Unlikely Lady Planter
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
Dullesian Ad Hoc Raison d’état Rehabilitated
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
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
The Electronic Herd vs. The Tortoise
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
The Diplomatic Sage of Monticello
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
Where Are the Cubans in This War?
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
The Washington-Tel Aviv Axis
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
Review of We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History By John Lewis Gaddis (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1997. 425 pages. $14.99 paper.) American Diplomacy published an essay by Professor John Lewis Gaddis titled “The New Cold War History” in its Autumn 1998 issue … Read more