Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List

Diplomacy Theory and Practice

Berridge, G. R. Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. 3rd Ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave,
2005. An up-to-date treatment of foreign ministries, the art of negotiation, and modes of
diplomacy by a leading scholar. [JZ1405.B475 2002] ISBN 1403993114
Berridge, G. R., and Alan James. A Dictionary of Diplomacy, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-
Macmillan 2004. A comprehensive guide to all aspects of diplomacy, continually updated
online. [JZ1405.B47 2001]
Cohen, Raymond. Negotiating Across Cultures: International Communication in an
Interdependent World. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997. A revised version of
the 1991 edition, this work expands upon the way cultural factors affect U.S. dealings with
Japan, China, Egypt, India, and Mexico. [JZ1305.C64 1997] ISBN 1878379720
Deibel, Terry L. Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft.New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Steps back from specific policy prescriptions and
arguments in order to explain how to think productively about foreign affairs. It is based on
the proposition that successful foreign policy is necessarily strategic in nature. [JZ1480.D45
2007] Recommended, 9/2008.
Dorman, Shawn, ed. Inside A U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works For America.
Washington, DC: American Foreign Service Association, 2005. Details the inner workings of
U.S. embassies around the globe, including first-hand accounts of diplomacy in action.
[JZ1405.I55 2003] ISBN 0964948826
Freeman, Charles. Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy. Washington, DC: US Institute of
Peace, 1997. A thought-provoking manual for the professional diplomat that provides an
outline and introduction to diplomatic thought and practice. [JZ1305.F74] ISBN
1878379658
Ikenberry, John, ed. American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (5th ed.). New York:
HarperCollins College Publishers, 2004. Thought-provoking essays by leading scholars of
U.S. foreign policy and international relations. [E840.A62]ISBN 067352440X
Keeley, Robert. First Line of Defense: Ambassadors, Embassies and American Interests.
Washington. DC: American Academy of Diplomacy, 2000. Drawing on the wisdom of
roughly 30 ambassadors, this work offers a true-to-life picture of how modern diplomacy is
practiced. [E840.F49] ISBN 0967910803
Kissinger, Henry. A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh, and the Problems of Peace,
1812-22. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. [D383.K5]
Miller, Robert Hopkins et al. Inside an Embassy: The Political Role of Diplomats Abroad.
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1992. How diplomats carry out embassy
political functions, with cases and illustrative political reporting. [JX1706.M48]
Newsom, David D., Ed. Diplomacy under a Foreign Flag: When Nations Break Relations.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. Analysis and case histories of an aspect of international
law and diplomacy: the role of protecting powers and interest sections in maintaining
dialogue absent diplomatic relations. [JX1683.F6D47] ISBN 9780312040512
Nicolson, Harold. Diplomacy. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939. A classic work that explores the
origins of diplomacy, its development, basic diplomatic practices, and the personal qualities
required of successful diplomats. [JX1662.N51 1988] ISBN 0934742529
Ross, Dennis. Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World. New York:
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. The long-time U.S. Middle East negotiator provides
insights on diplomacy and negotiation. [JZ1480.R674 2007] ISBN 9780374299286

Foreign Policy
Ferguson, Niall. Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. A
provocative work examining the historical hesitation of the United States - the most powerful
empire in history - to be classified as an empire. [JZ1480.F47 2004] ISBN 1594200130
Ghani, Ashraf and Clare Lockhart. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a
Fractured World. London: Oxford University Press, 2008. [JC328.7.G43 2008] ISBN
0195342690
Haass, Richard. The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course. New York:
Public Affairs, 2005. The former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and
current President of the Council on Foreign Relations describes the challenges and
opportunities facing the United States at the beginning of the 21st century in trying to create
a more secure, free and prosperous world. [E902.H22 2005] ISBN 1586482769
Hume, Cameron R. The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Behind-the-scenes account of evolving
Security Council diplomacy and conflict resolution in the Iran-Iraq and Iraq-Kuwait
conflicts. [JX1977.2 I7 H85] ISBN 0253328748
Huntington, Samuel. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. This thought-provoking work explores the cultural
foundations of international conflict. [D860.H86 1997] ISBN 0684844419
Kagan, Robert. The Return of History and the End of Dreams. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
2008. Addresses the challenges and questions confronting the modern-day liberal democratic
world, from the competition among powerful nations to the violent struggle of radical Islam,
and calls for a new approach on the part of the liberal world to shape the future. [D860.K34
2008] ISBN 978-0307269232
Khan, Riaz. Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1991. An authoritative insider’s account by the senior Pakistani diplomat
involved in the eight-year negotiations among all the major players leading to the 1988
Geneva Accords. [DS371.2.K48] ISBN 0822311550
Kohut, Andrew and Bruce Stokes. America Against the World: How We Are Different and
Why We Are Disliked. New York: Times Books, 2006. An important work which draws on
polling data from 50 countries to examine modern anti-Americanism. [E169.12.K59 2006]
ISBN 0805077219
Mandelbaum, Michael. The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's
Government in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. In this
provocative work, the author positions the United States as a modern-day Goliath, "the
functional equivalent of the world's government." [JZ1480.M3258 2005] ISBN 1586483609
McDougall, Walter A. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the
World Since 1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. [E183.7.M517] ISBN 0395830850
Mead, Walter Russell. Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed
the World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. A history of American foreign policy and its
influence on the world. [E183.7.M52] ISBN 0375412301
Zimmerman, Warren. First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a
World Power. New York: Farrar, Straus and Diroux, 2002. [E663.Z46 2002] ISBN
0374179395

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Global Issues

Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2002. The concise
summation of years of thinking and writing about the world's fastest growing religion.
[BP50.A69]
Benedick, Richard Elliot. Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, enlarged ed., 1998. The chief U.S. negotiator of the
1987 Montreal Protocol combines science, politics, economics, and diplomacy in the
definitive account of the origins and realization of this precedent-setting international
agreement. [K3593.B46 1998]
Goodby, James E., Dmitri Trenin, and Petrus Buwalda, with Yves Pagniez. A Strategy for
Stable Peace: Towards a Euroatlantic Security Community. Washington, DC: US
Institute of Peace, 2002. The results of a two-year study on alternative futures for U.S.-EU-
Russian relations and a "peaceful, undivided, democratic Europe." [UA646.G66 2002]
Langewiesche, William. The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime. New
York: North Point Press, 2004. [HE571.L36 2004]
Naim, Moises. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global
Economy. New York: Doubleday, 2005. A hard-hitting exploration of the effect of illicit
activities on the global economy. [HV6252.N35 2005]
Karabell, Zachary. Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and
Jewish Conlfict and Cooperation. Provides a detailed account of Muslim, Christian, and
Jewish coexistence over the past 14 centuries to illuminate what has happened, is happening,
and might happen in that tumultuous regions of the world. (Added October 2008)

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Economics, Trade, and Commerce

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. [HM846.F74 2005]
Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military
Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House, 1987. A seminal work about the
dangers of imperial overstretch. [D210.K46]
Kopp, Harry W. Commercial Diplomacy and the National Interest. New York: American
Academy of Diplomacy; Business Council for International Understanding, 2004. Describes
the importance of promoting U.S. business abroad in maintaining America’s place in the
world. [HF1455.K66 2004]
Rangan, V. Kasturi. Business Solutions for the Global Poor Creating Social and Economic
Value. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2007. Papers presented at A Conference on Global
Poverty: Business Solutions and Approaches, Harvard University, Dec.1-3, 2005. Includes
bibliographical references and index.[HD60.C624 2005eb]
Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time. New York: Penguin
Press, 2005. [HC59.72 P6 S225 2005]
Steil, Benn and Robert E. Litan. Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in
American Foreign Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. The first book
devoted to “financial statecraft,” the influencing of capital flows. [HG181.S797 2006]

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Science and Technology

National Research Council (U.S.) Globalization, Biosecurity and the Future of the Life
Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006. [HV6433.3.G56 2006]
Steffen, Alex. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. New York: Abrams,
2006. [HC79.E5 W676 2006]
Tapscott, Don. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. New york:
Portfolio, 2008. [HD69.S8 T37 2008]

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Leadership and Management

Anderson, Dean. Beyond Change Management : Advanced Strategies for Today's
Transformational Leaders. {Practicing Organization Development Series} San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. [HD57.7.D522 2001eb]
Cohen, Eliot A. Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime. New
York: Anchor Books, 2003. [JF195.C65 2003]
Drucker, Peter. The Effective Executive. New York: HarperBusiness Essentials, 2002.
[HD38.25.U6 D78 2002]
Klann, Gene. Crisis Leadership: Using Military Lessons, Organizational Experiences, and
the Power of Influence to Lessen the Impact of Chaos on the People You Lead. Dubuque,
IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1995. A short, but well-done, primer on leadership in
crises. [HD57.7K547 2003]
Neustadt, Richard E. and Ernest R. May. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-
Makers. New York: Free Press, 1986. [E743.N378]
Smilansky, Jonathan. Developing Executive Talent: Best Practices from Global Leaders 2007
[pre-order status].

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Public Diplomacy

Dizard, Wilson P. Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the United States Information
Agency. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2004. A useful, clear, and compact account of a
vitally important aspect of U.S. foreign policy. [E840.2.D59 2004] ISBN 158826288X
--- Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Information Age. Westport, Conn.: Praeger,
2001. [E840.D5 2001eb]
Kiehl, William, ed. America's Dialogue with the World. Washington, DC: Public Diplomacy
Council, 2006. Essays on strategic communication, cultural diplomacy, technology,
 exchanges and other subjects relating to the changing nature of U.S. public diplomacy.
[E895.A43 2006] ISBN 9780976439110
Nye, Joseph. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. New York: Public Affairs,
2004. Makes the case for using the “soft power” of U.S. public diplomacy aboard.
[JZ1480.N94 2004] ISBN 1586482254
Tuch, Hans N. Communicating with the World: U.S. Public Diplomacy Overseas. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1990. A seasoned practitioner vividly explains how diplomatic missions
abroad practice public diplomacy. [JX1706.T78] ISBN 0312045328

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Diplomatic and Consular History

Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. William I. Cohen, ed. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1993. v. 1. The Creation of a Republican empire, 1776-1865.
Bradford Perkins: v. 2. Empire for opportunity, 1865-1913. Walter LaFeber: v. 3. The
globalizing of America, 1913-1945. Akira Iriye: v. 4. America in the age of Soviet power,
1945-1991. Warren I. Cohen. [E183.7.C24]
Eicher, Peter D. "Emperor Dead" and Other Historic American Diplomatic Dispatches.
Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1996. A fascinating selection of over 260
dispatches from 1776 to the Vietnam era, most taken directly from originals in the National
Archives, many previously unpublished or inaccessible. [E183.7.E47]
Kagan, Robert. Dangerous Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006. [E183.7.K34 2006] ISBN
9780375724916
Kennedy, Charles Stuart. The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular
Service, 1776-1914. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. The consular service prior to the
Rogers Act. [JZ1480.K46 1990 Reference] ISBN 0313272123
Stuart, Graham H. American Diplomatic and Consular Practice. New York: Appleton-
Century-Crofts, [1951] [JX1705.S8 1952]
--- The Department of State: A History of its Organization, Procedure, and Personnel. New
York: Macmillan Co., 1949. [JK853.S8]
Weil, Martin. A Pretty Good Club : The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service. New
York: Norton, 1978. A history of the Foreign Service during the interwar period. [JX1706.Z5
W4] Recommended, 9/2008.

History: 18th & 19th Century

Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy.
New York: A.A.Knopf, 1949. [E377.B5]
Brown, Gordon S. Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. A well-crafted narrative of early American
diplomacy’s responses to the Haitian revolution. [E310.7.B76 2005]
Hunt, Michael H., The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained & Wielded
Global Dominance. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. An author of
numerous studies of U.S. diplomacy charts America's rise to power from the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries to its position of dominance. [E183.7.H855 2007]
Nicolson, Harold George. The Congress of Vienna, A Study in Allied Unity: 1812-1822.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1946. [DC249.N5 1946a]
Parker, Richard B. Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History. Gainesville: University Press
of Florida, 2004. A scholar-diplomat who served in and studied the Arab world for fifty years
explores the young American republic’s earliest encounter with Islam, beginning in 1785.
[Pre-order Status]

History: 20th Century

Beale, Howard K. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press. 1984 [c1956]. [E757.B4 1984] ISBN 0801832497
Bowden, Mark. Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in
America's War with Militant Islam. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. Chronicles
the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by militants, who held 66 American staffers
hostage from November 1979 to January 1981. [DS274.2.U5 B68 2006]
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. Minneapolis, MN: Highbridge Co. 2005.
An excellent analysis of the central issues of the Cold War that summarizes the major and
many minor events of that era. [D843.G22 2005] ISBN 1594200629
Hart, Parker T. Two NATO Allies at the Threshold of War––Cyprus: A Firsthand Account of
Crisis Management, 1965–1968. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1990. An insider’s
case study of crisis management, skillful diplomacy, and the shuttle diplomacy of Cyrus
Vance. [DS54.9.H38] ISBN 0822309777
Kirk, Roger, and Mircea Raceanu. Romania Versus the United States: Diplomacy of the
Absurd, 1985–1989. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. A revealing insiders’ account of
the deteriorating special relationship between the United States and Romania in the last
years of Ceausescu by the two chief diplomatic actors in the drama. [DR229.U5 K47] ISBN
0312120591
Lederer, William J. The Ugly American. New York: Norton, 1958. [DS508.L41]
Macmillan, Margaret Olwen. Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. New York:
Random House, 2002. A fresh look at the peace negotiations to end WWI and their enduring
impact on 20th century history.[D644.M32 2002] ISBN 0375508260
McNamara, Robert. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Times
Books, 1995. [DS558.M44] ISBN 0812925238
Miller, Robert H. Vietnam and Beyond: A Diplomat’s Cold War Education. Lubbock: Texas
Tech University Press, 2002. The exceptional "hands-on" knowledge and critical evolution of
a career diplomat who worked on America's unsuccessful Vietnam venture and its aftermath
for nearly one-third of his Cold War–spanning career. [E840.8.M53 M55 2002]
Nicolson, Harold George. Peacemaking, 1919. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939. [D644.N45
1939]

History: Post 1989

Priest, Dana. The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military. New
York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. A noted Washington Post reporter’s path-breaking
examination of the growing militarization of diplomacy. [UA23.P748 2003]
Stephenson, James. Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction.
Washington,DC: Potomac Books, 2007. A vivid account by the 2004–2005 USAID mission
director, an FSO expert in post-conflict transition, of what it was like to live and work in war-
torn Iraq. [DS79.769.S74 2007]

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Biographies

Lidegaard, Bo. Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in
World War II and the Cold War 1939–1958. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. The
extraordinary life of a major figure in U.S.-Danish relations as Denmark's wartime and
postwar envoy to Washington. [DL252.K285 2003]
Schaffer, Howard B. Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1993. A highly readable account of the controversial foreign policy years of
a leading Democratic politician who promoted Third World development as Ambassador to
India twice and as Under Secretary of State. [E748.B73 S33]
--- Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2003. The biography of one of America’s foremost diplomats, who
served seven presidents as ambassador, special envoy, and mediator extraordinaire following
a long career as a successful businessman. [E840.8.B845 S33 2003]

Foreign Affairs Professional Reading List Memoirs

Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York:
Norton, 1969. [E744.A25]
Bender, Margaret. Foreign at Home and Away: Foreign-born Wives in the U.S. Foreign
Service. Lincoln, NE: Writers Club Press, 2002. Individual stories of Foreign Service life
interwoven with themes such as transitions, work, children, senior wives, CIA wives, marital
problems, post–Foreign Service life, and home country reentry. [E840.6.B36 2002]
Dean, John Gunther. Danger Zones: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s Interests. New
Academia Publishing/VELLUM, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9823867-0-5 paperback
Grove, Brandon. Behind Embassy Walls: The Life and Times of an American Diplomat.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. A highly literate account of a 35- year
diplomatic career in Africa, Europe, Central America, and the Middle East. [E840.8.G76G76
2005]
Kennan, George. Memoirs 1925-1950. New York: Random House, Inc. 1983. This book by one
of America’s most influential diplomats brings to life major events of U.S. diplomatic history
of his era. [E748.K38 A3]
Kennedy, Charles Stuart and William D. Morgan, eds. American Diplomats: The Foreign
Service at Work. New York: Universe:, 2004. Drawn from the ADST Oral History program.
[E744.A537 2004]
Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. A readable yet scholarly
insider's perspective on critical developments during the Cold War. [JX1662.K57]
--- White House Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. [E855.K57]
--- Years of Upheaval. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. [E840.8.K58 A38]
--- Years of Renewal. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. [E840.8.K58 A3 1999]
Linderman, Patricia and Brayer Hess, Melissa ed. Realities of Foreign Service Life. San Jose,
CA: Writers Club Press, 2002. An honest and balanced view of the realities of life in the
Foreign Service. JZ1405.R43]
Perkins, Edward J. Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace. Norman, OK: University of
Oklahoma Press, 2006. This memoir of one of America's most courageous statesmen is
illustrated with 50 b&w photographs and 6 maps and is a dynamic history of a time, a
people, a nation and one extraordinary. [E840.8.P4255 A3 2006]
Spain, James W. In Those Days: A Diplomat Remembers. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University
Press, 1998. A diplomatic life on the edge, told with a bluntness leavened with feeling and
humor, by a career diplomat and four-time ambassador, to Tanzania, Turkey, Sri Lanka, and
USUN. [E748.S734 A3 1998]

Ambassadorial Seminar Reading List

U.S. Foreign Policy and Department of State Histories

Campbell, John Franklin. The Foreign Affairs Fudge Factory. New York, Basic Books [1971]
A critique of the Department's bureaucracy and a call for reorganization by a former
employee. [JX1705.C18]
Kissinger, Henry. Does American Need a Foreign Policy? : Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st
Century. Simon & Schuster. 2002. This is the most recent contribution to the topic of U.S.
Foreign policy. from the prolific former Secretary of State.
Miller, Robert Hopkins. Inside an Embassy: The Political Role of Diplomats Abroad.
Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992 Case
studies on the role of the political section of the embassy. This book has a strong
bibliography of monographs and articles on the topic of diplomacy. [JX1706.M48]
The Modern Ambassador: The Challenge and the Search. Edited by Martin F. Herz.
Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1983. A
collection of essays from a wide range of contributors on the selection criteria for good
ambassadorship.
Plischke, Elmer. U.S. Department of State: A Reference History. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1999. [JZ1480.A4 1999]
Rubin, Barry M. Secrets of State : the State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign
Policy. New York : Oxford University Press, 1985. A combination of history and current
analysis on the operations of the Department of State. [E840.R83]
Ryan, Henry Butterfield. The Fall of Che Guevara : A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and
Diplomats. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. Based on recently released classified
documents, this is a new insight to Che Guevara and US Foreign Policy in Latin America.
[F3326.G84 R93]
Spaulding, E. Wilder. Ambassadors Ordinary and Extraordinary. Washington, D.C.: Public
Affairs Press, 1961. This title is a history of the role and attributes of an effective
Ambassador in the conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy. [JX 1706.Z7 S6]
Zimmermann, Warren. First Great Triumph : How Five Americans Made Their Country a
World Power. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Written by a former diplomat
and scholar, this book explores the contributions of Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge,
John Hay, Elihu Root, and Admiral Alfred T. Mahan to the role of the U.S. in 20th century
world affairs. [E663.Z46 2002]

Foreign Service Histories

Bohlen, Charles E. Witness to History, 1929-1969. New York, Norton, 1973. Memoirs of one of
the "founding fathers" of the contemporary foreign service. [E748.B64 A3]
De Santis, Hugh. The Diplomacy of Silence : The American Foreign Service, the Soviet
Union, and the Cold War, 1933-1947. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980. Prize
winning history of the foreign service. [DK69.D46 ]
Kennedy, Charles Stuart. The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular
Service, 1776-1914. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. This title is a look at the earliest
days of consular service abroad.
Schulzinger, Robert D. The Making of the Diplomatic Mind : The Training, Outlook, and
Style of United States Foreign Service officers, 1908-1931. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan
University Press, 1975. [JX1706.Z5 S38]
Toward a Modern Diplomacy; A Report to the American Foreign Service Association.
Washington, 1968. [JX1706.A9]
Villard, Henry Serrano. Affairs at State. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1965. A career
diplomat's candid appraisal of the U.S. Foreign Service. [JX1706.Z7 V5]
Weil, Martin. A Pretty Good Club : The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service. New
York : Norton, c1978. [JX1706.Z5 W4]
Werking, Richard Hume. The Master Architects : Building the United States Foreign Service,
1890-1913. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1977. [JX1705.W47]

Secretaries of State Memoirs & Biographies

Albright, Madeleine Korbel with Bill Woodward. Madam Secretary. New York : Miramax
Books, 2003. [E840.8.A37A3 2003]
Baker, James Addison, with Thomas M. DeFrank. The Politics of Diplomacy : Revolution,
War, and Peace, 1989-1992. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. [E881.B35]
Bumiller, Elisabeth. Condoleezza Rice: an American life: a Biography. New York: Random
House, 2007. [E840.8.R48 B86 2007]
Christopher, Warren. Chances of a Lifetime. New York : Scribner, c2001. [E840.8.C486]
Powell, Colin L. with Joseph E. Persico. My American Journey. New York : Random House,
1995. [E840.5.P68 A3]
Shultz, George Pratt. Turmoil and Triumph : My Years as Secretary of State. New York : C.
Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan
International, c1993. [E840.8.S535 A3]

Ambassadorial Memoirs
Briggs, Ellis O. Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador. Kent State University
Press, 1998.
Burke, Lee H. Ambassador at Large: Diplomat Extraordinary. The Hague, Nijhoff, 1972.
[JX1706.Z7 B87]
First Line of Defense : Ambassadors, Embassies, and American Interests Abroad. Edited by
Robert V. Keeley. Washington, D.C. : American Academy of Diplomacy, 2000. [E840.F49] A
collection of personal accounts by senior American ambassadors about the role of diplomacy
in U.S. international relations
Hillenbrand, Martin Joseph. Fragments of Our Time : Memoirs of a Diplomat. Athens :
University of Georgia Press, c1998. [E748.H57A3 1998]
Hixson, Walter L. George F. Kennan : Cold War Iconoclast. New York : Columbia University
Press, c1989. [E748.K38 H58]
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Gentleman from New York : Daniel Patrick Moynihan : A
Biography. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. [E840.8.M68H63] Includes service as U.S.
Ambassador to India, 1973-1975.
MacLean, Elizabeth Kimball. Joseph E. Davies : Envoy to the Soviets. Westport, Conn. :
Praeger, 1992. [E748.D215 M33]
Mak, Dayton and Charles Stuart Kennedy. American Ambassadors in a Troubled World :
Interviews with Senior Diplomats. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992. [E840.M335]
Morin, Ann Miller. Her Excellency : An Oral History of American Women Ambassadors.
New York : Twayne ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1994. [E747.M73]
Nolting, Frederick. From Trust to Tragedy : The Political Memoirs of Frederick Nolting,
Kennedy's Ambassador to Diem's Vietnam. New York : Praeger, 1988. [DS556.58.U5
N66]
Stiller, Jesse H. George S. Messersmith, Diplomat of Democracy. Chapel Hill : University of
North Carolina Press, c1987. [E748.M573 S75] Includes service as U.S. Ambassdor to
Mexico, 1942-1946.
Saxbe, William B. I've Seen the Elephant : An Autobiography. Kent, Ohio : Kent State
University Press, c2000. [E840.8.S293S29] Includes service as U.S. Ambassador to India,
1975-1976.

Diplomatic & Life Abroad Memoirs

Addleton, J. S. (Jonathan S.) Some Far and Distant Place. Athens, GA : The University of
Georgia Press, 1997. [DS371.2 .A313 1997]. Memories of a childhood spent in Pakistan as a
son of Missionaries and later service in USAID.
Barnes, Thomas J. Anecdotes of a Vagabond : The Foreign Service, the UN, and a Volag.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Exlibris, c2000. [E840.8.B325A3 2000]
Bell, Linda. Hidden Immigrants : Legacies of Growing Up Abroad. Notre Dame, Ind.: Cross
Cultural Publications, CrossRoads Books, c1997. [E184.2.B45 1997]
Clubb, O. Edmund (Oliver Edmund). The Witness and I. New York, Columbia University
Press, 1974 [c1975] Memoirs of one of the "China Hands." [E748.C59 A38]
Conroy, Richard Timothy. Our Man in Belize: A Memoir. St. Martin's Press, 1997. Anecdotal
and often humorous life as a vice-consul. [E840.8.C66A3]
Conroy, Richard Timothy. Our Man in Vienna : A Memoir. New York : Thomas Dunne Books,
c2000. Insights to life as a consular officer, this book picks up where Our Man in Belize
leaves off. [E840.8.C663A3]
Davies, John Paton. Foreign and Other Affairs. New York : W.W. Norton, 1964. Memoirs of a
"China Hand." [E744.D34]
Fenzi, Jewell. Married to the Foreign Service : An Oral History of the American Diplomatic
Spouse. New York : Twayne ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1994. [JX1706.Z7 F46]
Hughes, Katherine L. The Accidental Diplomat : Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse. Putnam
Valley, N.Y. : Aletheia, c1999. [JX1706.Z7H84]
Michaux, Phyllis. The Unknown Ambassadors : A Saga of Citizenship. Bayside, NY :
Aletheia Publications, c1996. This title traces the history of efforts to establish and improve
the rights of Americans living or born abroad. [KF4704.M53]
Realities of Foreign Service Wife. Edited by Patricia Linderman and Melissa Brayer Hess. San
Jose, Calif. : Writers Club Press, c2002. [JZ1405.R43 2002]
Schmiel, Gene Putnam. Welcome Home, Who are You? : Tales of a Foreign Service Family.
Valley, NY : Aletheia Publications, c1998. This collection of essays and narratives depicts
family life in the Foreign Service. [E840.8.S34]
Smith, Carolyn D. The Absentee American : Repatriates' Perspectives on America. New
York : Aletheia, c1994, c1991. This title explores the long-term impact of overseas living on
Americans who spent some of their formative years in countries other than the United States.
[E184.2 .S55 1994]
Strangers at Home : Essays on the Effects of Living Overseas and Coming "Home" to a
Strange Land. Edited by Carolyn D. Smith. Bayside, NY : Aletheia Publications, c1996.
[GN517.S78]
Taber, Sara Mansfield. Of Many Lands : Journal of a Traveling Childhood. Washington, DC :
Foreign Service Youth Foundation, c1997. [E184.2.M36 ]

Leadership and Management

Axelrod, Alan. Profiles in Leadership. New York : Prentice Hall, c2003. [CT104.A84 2003]
Citrin, James M. and Richard A. Smith. The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers : The
Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction. New York : Crown Business, 2003.
[HF5381.C58 2003]
Harari, Oren. The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.
[E840.5.P68H36]
Kettl, Donald F. Team Bush : Leadership Lessons from the Bush White House. New York :
McGraw-Hill, 2003. [HD57.7.K49 2003]
Shepard, Steven. Managing Cross-Cultural Transition : A Handbook for Corporations,
Employees, and their Families. Bayside, NY : Aletheia Publications, c1998.
[HF5382.55 .S4]