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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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAKeenan, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEENAN, BRIGID KEEPacker, George
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLBROOKE, RICHARD PACSummary: The Iran hostage crisis involved 52 American diplomats, Marines, and civilians held by force at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Unfolding like a political thriller, see how hostages' personal lives were torn apart and scrutinized through publicity, correspondents risked their lives to discover the truth about Iran, and military forces attempted to rescue the victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TAKRice, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RICHosten-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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sutherland House 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: 791.6 HOSWilkinson, Gina
Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILWright, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 WRISummary: With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, examine the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from the past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KI-MOON, BAN KI-MLarson, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LARMendez, Antonio J.
Summary: An account of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 MENVindman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VINDMAN, ALEXANDER VINSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRIMunson, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MUNRice, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, SUSAN E. RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B RICE RICGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIKates, Gary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.034 KATPower, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELLO, SERGIO VIERIA DE POWBurns, 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNS, WILLIAM J BURJefferson, Thomas
Summary: HIST Thomas Jefferson, best known as the author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and as our third president, was an extraordinarily accomplished man with wide-ranging interests. From 1784 to 1789, he was America's envoy to France, during which time he also traveled widely on the European continent. From his extensive writings during these years, editors Wilson and Stanton (both with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 JEFLarson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DODD, WILLIAM E. LARCall number: 943.086 DODD, WILLIAM E. LAR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld LarsenSmith, Danny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5431 SMIFarrow, Ronan
Summary: United States foreign policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Institutions of diplomacy and development are reeling from deep budget cuts. The diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018