Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00PG8QXLG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat. Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill's account is an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. Hill draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton's hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and
Christian Schlect said No Hill To Climb. A memoir of a talented career Foreign Service Officer, one with significant mentors, such as Larry Eagleburger and Dick Holbrooke, and hard, but important, postings overseas.Those interested about our country's recent diplomacy in Bosnia, North Korea, and Iraq would do well to read Ambassador Hill's book.As with most such efforts, points are made against those who disagreed with the views of the ambassador. Here the prime villains are the neo-cons, people as Paul Wolfowitz and John Bo. Wonderful storytelling and thought-provoking memoir of life as a US Ambassador As a former expat, it was a pleasure and joy to read Ambassador Hill's memoir "Outpost". His blend of storytelling and analysis of events in the Balkans, Poland, Iraq, and North Korea struck a chord with me. I alternated between laughing out loud when he talks frankly about Washington bigwigs' antics (who knew that Condi Rice traveled everywhere with her elliptical machine??), and thinking deeply about America's role in global issues.Ambassador Hill makes no apologies about his approa. C.P.M. said A Diplomat's Life For Me. (Full Disclosure: I had the pleasure of meeting the author a few months ago and got this book signed. I also got the chance, along with some friends, to ask him some questions. Having said that, I am reviewing this book as objectively as possible).Perhaps at no other time since the heydays of McCarthyism in America has the art of diplomacy been under assault. When discussions and debates about America's foreign policy come about, they always seem to gravitate towards military options