Ambassador

Author : Eleni Kounalakis
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620971123

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Madam Ambassador by Eleni Kounalakis Pdf

A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and…a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally in the U.S. military surge, held elections in which a center-right candidate gained a two-thirds supermajority and rewrote the country's constitution, and grappled with the rise of Hungarian nationalism and anti-semitism. The first Greek-American woman ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, Kounalakis recounts her training at the State Department's “charm school” and her three years of diplomatic life in Budapest—from protocols about seating, salutations, and embassy security to what to do when the deposed King of Greece hands you a small chocolate crown (eat it, of course!). A cross between a foreign policy memoir and an inspiring personal family story—her immigrant Greek father went from agricultural day laborer to land developer and major Democratic party activist—Madam Ambassador draws back the curtain on what it is like to represent the U.S. government abroad as well as how American embassies around the world function.

Author : William Alexander
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442497641

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Ambassador by William Alexander Pdf

Recruited by a sock-puppet alien to become Earth's ambassador to the galaxy, 11-year-old Gabe Fuentes journeys into space and discovers that Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force that wants to assassinate him. By the National Book Award-winning author of Goblin Secrets.

Author : Paul Richter
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501172434

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The Ambassadors by Paul Richter Pdf

Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world—running local government, directing drone strikes, building nations, and risking their lives on the front lines. The tale’s heroes are a small circle of top career diplomats who have been an unheralded but crucial line of national defense in the past two decades of wars in the greater Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who “do the hardest things in the hardest places.” The book describes how Ryan Crocker helped rebuild a shattered Afghan government after the fall of the Taliban and secretly negotiated with the shadowy Iranian mastermind General Qassim Suleimani to wage war in Afghanistan and choose new leaders for post-invasion Iraq. Robert Ford, assigned to be a one-man occupation government for an Iraqi province, struggled to restart a collapsed economy and to deal with spiraling sectarian violence—and was taken hostage by a militia. In Syria at the eruption of the civil war, he is chased by government thugs for defying the country’s ruler. J. Christopher Stevens is smuggled into Libya as US Envoy to the rebels during its bloody civil war, then returns as ambassador only to be killed during a terror attach in Benghazi. War-zone veteran Anne Patterson is sent to Pakistan, considered the world’s most dangerous country, to broker deals that prevent a government collapse and to help guide the secret war on jihadists. “An important and illuminating read” (The Washington Post) and the winner of the prestigious Douglas Dillon Book Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy, The Ambassadors is a candid examination of the career diplomatic corps, America’s first point of contact with the outside world, and a critical piece of modern-day history.

Author : Pam Jenoff
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778315094

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The Ambassador's Daughter by Pam Jenoff Pdf

Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a life with Stefan, the wounded fiancé she hardly knows anymore, she decides that being in Paris is not so bad after all. Bored and torn between duty and the desire to be free, Margot strikes up unlikely alliances: with Krysia, an accomplished musician with radical acquaintances and a secret to protect; and with Georg, the handsome, damaged naval officer who gives Margot a job—and also a reason to question everything she thought she knew about where her true loyalties should lie. Against the backdrop of one of the most significant events of the century, a delicate web of lies obscures the line between the casualties of war and of the heart, making trust a luxury that no one can afford.

Author : Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017456760

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The Ambassador's Wife by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) Pdf

Author : Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBSR:BS000900664

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The Ambassador's Wife by Catherine Grace Frances Gore Pdf

Author : Jane Harvey (of Newcastle.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000118459332

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The Ambassador's Secretary by Jane Harvey (of Newcastle.) Pdf

Author : Matthew Parris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780241957097

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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase by Matthew Parris Pdf

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan - which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway? These and other 'funnies', as they are known in Whitehall, are included in Matthew Parris' and and Adnrew Bryson's glorious new volume of not so diplomatic writing, which accompanies a new BBC Radio 4 series is a follow up to their acclaimed collection of ambassadors' final despatches, Parting Shots. Drawn from Freedom of Information requests and previously overlooked Valedictories these startling despatches throw a revealing light on how the British have viewed the world - and, unwittingly perhaps, on how the world has viewed the British. Praise for Parting Shots: 'Parting Shots is unbuttoned, indiscreet and very funny' Yorkshire Post 'Fascinating, if sometimes uncomfortable, reading' Financial Times 'Very funny' Guardian After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator, and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC's Business and Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 5 Live.

Author : Jane Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023928346

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The Ambassador's Secretary. A Tale by Jane Harvey Pdf

Author : Edwina Currie
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849544382

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The Ambassador by Edwina Currie Pdf

An extraordinarily vivid portrait of how the world could look - and think - one hundred years from now. It is a place where 'cloning' is not mentioned in polite society, but its influence is everywhere. And whilst there is progress in the battle against ageing and disease, there is also a darker side to the scientific breakthroughs, as Bill Strether, US Ambassador to London, is about to discover...

Author : Janice Gross Stein
Publisher : Signal
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780771081408

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Diplomacy in the Digital Age by Janice Gross Stein Pdf

Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks. Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape diplomacy for the times, the contributors to this volume grapple with the challenges of a digital age where information is everywhere and confidentiality is almost nowhere. With an introductory essay by renowned political scholar, writer, and commentator, Janice Gross Stein, the work is divided into 4 sections: Diplomacy with the United States in the Era of Wikileaks; The Professional Diplomat on Facebook; Personal Diplomacy in the Age of Twitter; and Where is Headquarters? Contributors include professional diplomats, award-winning journalist Andrew Cohen, former Globe and Mail editor and author Ed Greenspon, and Allan Gotlieb's wife and partner in 'social diplomacy', Sondra Gotlieb.

Author : Kate Otto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476786773

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Everyday Ambassador by Kate Otto Pdf

In Everyday Ambassador Kate Otto brings people together even as our digital networks pull us further apart. In a world of limitless technology, we are more connected than ever before but our hyper-connected lifestyles threaten our ability to know ourselves and interact with each other. By focusing on the four core values that allow us to become truly “connected” in tech-centric societies—empathy, patience, focus, and humility—Otto demonstrates that the power of technology is not in the tool, but in the intention of the person using it. Everyday Ambassador offers a unique solution to those who aspire to truly make a difference in the twenty-first century—revealing the secrets of how to unite people, even when technology keeps us at a distance from others—emotionally and physically. Otto helps us lift our heads up from our cell phones and tablets and take a look at the people standing right in front of us. In a time when good citizenship is the new currency of cool, Everyday Ambassador gives us the tactics to connect in our disconnected world.

Author : Robert Cooper
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297608547

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The Ambassadors by Robert Cooper Pdf

History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe. The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.

Author : Yehuda Avner,Matt Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1592643884

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The Ambassador by Yehuda Avner,Matt Rees Pdf

1937. In a fictional turn of historical events, the British Cabinet accepts the recommendations of the Peel Commission, establishing a Jewish State in the Land of Israel. Dan Lavi is a young diplomat sent by Ben-Gurion to serve as the country's first ambassador to Berlin, in an effort to save as many Jews as possible under the controversial Transfer Agreement.

Author : Tomas Estes
Publisher : Sauce Guides Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Tequila
ISBN : 0955627656

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The Tequila Ambassador by Tomas Estes Pdf