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Chaffin, Tom

Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHA

Kates, Gary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.034 KAT

Power, Samantha.

Summary: Reveals Sergio Vieira de Mello's powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength in the context of his troubleshooting attempts in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion; in his taming of the Khmer Rouge and his repatriation of four-hundred-thousand Cambodian refugees in the early nineties; in his efforts to negotiate an end to the slaughter in Bosnia; in his struggle to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELLO, SERGIO VIERIA DE POW

Rice, Susan E.

Summary: Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice, who served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, delivers an account of a life in service to family and country.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RIC

Rice, Susan E

Summary: "Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice -- National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- delivers an inspiring accountof a life in service to family and country"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RIC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B RICE RIC

Packer, George

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLBROOKE, RICHARD PAC

Keenan, Brigid

Summary: In the continuing adventures of Brigid Keenan, the "trailing spouse" of a diplomat, we find her dealing with life in Kazakhstan, navigating her daughters' weddings, coping with a cancer diagnosis, and getting a crash course in grandmotherhood, while facing up to her greatest challange yet: retirement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEENAN, BRIGID KEE

Munson, Helene

Summary: "The true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MUN

Hosten-Craig, Jennifer

Summary: "1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the supersonic Concorde--a time of new possibilities and social upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the Caribbean island of Grenada, was as surprised as anyone to find herself in the midst of it. After winning a Miss Grenada contest, she travelled to London for the 1970 Miss World pageant and arrived at Royal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sutherland House 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: 791.6 HOS

Smith, Danny.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5431 SMI

Vindman, Alexander S.

Summary: Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. HERE, RIGHT MATTERS is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VINDMAN, ALEXANDER VIN

Ki-moon, Ban

Summary: "Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. At six years old he fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive-until the United...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KI-MOON, BAN KI-M

Larson, Erik.

Summary: In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitler's violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror. Here, author Erik...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LAR

Summary: Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRI

Larson, Erik.

Summary: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DODD, WILLIAM E. LAR
Call number: 943.086 DODD, WILLIAM E. LAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 943.086 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 943.086 LAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld Larsen

Burns, William J. (William Joseph)

Summary: "Ambassador William J. Burns is the most distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century. Over the course of four decades, he played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time--from the bloodless end of the Cold War to post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNS, WILLIAM J BUR

Wright, Robert A. (Robert Anthony)

Summary: Puts newly unclassified documents to use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 WRI

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