Eye on the world : a life in international service /
"The autobiography of one of America's highly esteemed diplomats, Ambassador Anthony "Tony" C. E. Quainton, and his long and storied career in eleven countries on six continents in a unique diversity of top posts"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lincoln, Nebraska] :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | ADST-DACOR Diplomats and diplomacy series
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seattle beginnings
- The Victoria connection
- Go East, young man
- English interlude
- A tiger in my tank
- Oxford days
- Meeting the Soviet bear
- Foreign service beginnings
- The Raj and beyond
- Paris interlude
- Nepal : land of the yeti
- The heart of darkness
- Counterterrorism
- Life in revolutionary Nicaragua
- Diplomacy and regime change
- Desert sands
- Rooting out corruption and incompetence
- Democracy, drugs, and development : Andean adventure
- Final Washington years
- Challenges in the nonprofit world
- The classroom and beyond
- Epilogue: Christian, gentleman, cricketer.