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Summary: One of the best of its genre!
Review: Harry Kendall's memoir is one of the best books of its genre. Anyone interested in joining the U.S. Foreign Service, or simply wanting to know what it was like to be a Foreign Service Officer during the Cold War, will find this well-written, personal experience of a U.S. Information Agency public diplomat an entertaining, often exciting, and always satisfying view of life on the front lines of diplomacy.This personal account of working in Latin America, Europe, and Asia to foster U.S. Foreign Policy goals by telling America's story to the world provides a unique insight to one man's successful and satisfying career as he left behind his boyhood life on a farm to live and work in foreign cultures on behalf of his country. At a time when the importance of the term public diplomacy has been regenerated in the post 9/11 period because of the greater need than ever to provide the world with information about U.S. actions and the motives for such actions, this book provides some lessons, still applicable today, on how it was done when communism, rather than terrorism, was America's chief concern.
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Summary: One of the best of its genre!
Review: Harry Kendall's memoir is one of the best books of its genre. Anyone interested in joining the U.S. Foreign Service, or simply wanting to know what it was like to be a Foreign Service Officer during the Cold War, will find this well-written, personal experience of a U.S. Information Agency public diplomat an entertaining, often exciting, and always satisfying view of life on the front lines of diplomacy. This personal account of working in Latin America, Europe, and Asia to foster U.S. Foreign Policy goals by telling America's story to the world provides a unique insight to one man's successful and satisfying career as he left behind his boyhood life on a farm to live and work in foreign cultures on behalf of his country. At a time when the importance of the term public diplomacy has been regenerated in the post 9/11 period because of the greater need than ever to provide the world with information about U.S. actions and the motives for such actions, this book provides some lessons, still applicable today, on how it was done when communism, rather than terrorism, was America's chief concern.
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Summary: Life as a Foreign Service Officer During the Cold War Years
Review: This fascinating book tells how a boy who grew up on a Louisiana farm distinguished himself as a Foreign Service Officer working on behalf of the U.S. overseas during the Cold War. Harry Kendall's career spanned almost thirty years and took him to posts in Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, including two tours of duty in Japan and two in Vietnam. The book also gives us a look at the early years of America's space program and the role the U.S. Information Agency played in telling the story to the world. As NASA-USIA liaison officer, Kendall coordinated the agency's information output from NASA's headquarters and later dealt directly with eager audiences abroad. The story of the work of the rank-and-file diplomats who manned the front lines of the Cold War around the world is one that ought to be told, and Harry Kendall has done an admirable job.
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Summary: Life as a Foreign Service Officer During the Cold War Years
Review: This fascinating book tells how a boy who grew up on a Louisiana farm distinguished himself as a Foreign Service Officer working on behalf of the U.S. overseas during the Cold War. Harry Kendall's career spanned almost thirty years and took him to posts in Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, including two tours of duty in Japan and two in Vietnam. The book also gives us a look at the early years of America's space program and the role the U.S. Information Agency played in telling the story to the world. As NASA-USIA liaison officer, Kendall coordinated the agency's information output from NASA's headquarters and later dealt directly with eager audiences abroad. The story of the work of the rank-and-file diplomats who manned the front lines of the Cold War around the world is one that ought to be told, and Harry Kendall has done an admirable job.
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Summary: Propaganda in the Cold War
Review: This is "must" reading for students of the Cold War as well as anyoneinterested in what is now calledPublic Diplomacy. It's also a nostalgia trip for those legions who worked for the US Information Agency before it was folded into the State Department in 1999 after 43 years of telling America's story to the world. It portrays an exciting but little known or appreciated branch of this country's diplomatic service.
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Summary: Propaganda in the Cold War
Review: This is "must" reading for students of the Cold War as well as anyoneinterested in what is now calledPublic Diplomacy. It's also a nostalgia trip for those legions who worked for the US Information Agency before it was folded into the State Department in 1999 after 43 years of telling America's story to the world. It portrays an exciting but little known or appreciated branch of this country's diplomatic service.
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