ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book
Witness to a Changing World
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David D. Newsom Washington, DC:
New Academia Publishing, December 2008 "These memoirs of an unusually wise and perceptive diplomat provide rare insight into America at the apogee of its global power."
Witness to a Changing World is the life story of David D. Newsom, a Foreign Service officer who rose through the ranks from third secretary and vice consul in Karachi in 1948 to the top career post of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Carter administration. Along the way he served as Lyndon Johnson's ambassador to Libya, Richard Nixon's Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs and ambassador to Indonesia, and Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the Philippines. Published by New Academia Publishing, his book is the 34th in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. Throughout his eventful career, Newsom often served in countries such as Iraq and Libya that had just seen or were about to experience cataclysmic ruptures. His years heading the Africa Bureau revealed his sympathetic open-mindedness toward the people and countries of the continent. His reputation as an erudite student of history, a truth teller, and an incurable punster endeared him to friends and colleagues everywhere.
382 pp, 38 b&w illustrations, notes, index
Cloth $42.00 (members' price $38.00)
Softcover $28.00 (members' price $25.00)
Brandon Grove, President Emeritus, American Academy of Diplomacy:
David Dunlop Newsom (1918-2008) served in Naval Intelligence during World War II and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1947, serving until 1981. From 1981, Newsom served at Georgetown University as director of the Institute for the Study of diplomacy and as professor and acting dean of the School of Foreign Service. In 1991 he joined the faculty of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. His education earned him degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His books include The Soviet Brigade in Cuba, Diplomacy and the American Democracy, The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy, and The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third World.
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