Early years -- Hong Kong -- Vietnam -- Standford interlude -- Kissinger and the National Security Council -- Ecuador -- Thessaloniki -- Deputy assistant secretary for fisheries -- Deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs -- Honduras -- Assistant secretary for oceans, environmental and scientific affairs -- Deputy national security advisor -- Mexico -- The Philippines -- Panama -- McGraw-Hill -- United Nations -- Iraq -- Director of national intelligence -- Deputy secretary of state -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Can John D. Negroponte be described as 'The Last American Diplomat'? In a career spanning 50 years of unprecedented American global power, he was the last of a dying breed of patrician diplomats--devoted to public service, a self-effacing and ultimate insider, whose prime duty was to advise, guide and warn--a bulwark of traditional diplomatic realism against ideologue excess. Negroponte served as US ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Iraq; he was US Permanent Representative to the UN, Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State to George W. Bush. His was a high-flying and seemingly conventional career but one full of surprises. Negroponte opposed Kissinger in Vietnam, supported a 'proxy war' but opposed direct American military action against Marxists in Central America and warned that the Iraq War could be another 'Vietnam'. George W. Liebmann's incisive account of Negroponte's life and career is based on personal and shared experience, as well as thorough research and interviews with Negroponte and other leading actors. It will provide fascinating reading for students and researchers interested in the inside-story of American diplomacy, revealing personal and policy struggles, and the underlying fissures present even in the world's last remaining superpower."--Publisher's website.
Series:
International library of twentieth century history ; 45
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