Ambassador Seymour Finger provides an insider's view of American diplomacy since World War II, including many of its leaders, and of the changing American Foreign Service. He also offers proposals to equip the Foreign Service for the challenges of the 21st century.

A boy grows in Brooklyn -- President Truman's proclamation : my entry into the Foreign Service -- Embassy Paris -- Behind the Iron Curtain : Budapest -- The Harvard interlude and Rome -- Life in Laos -- Life in the big time : Henry Cabot Lodge and the United Nations -- Adlai Stevenson -- Arthur J. Goldberg : a justice comes to the UN -- Charles Yost and the Nixon-Kissinger years -- George Bush : a future president at the UN -- Life after the Foreign Service -- A Foreign Service for the 21st century.

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