Publications

ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series

For more than 225 years extraordinary men and women have represented the United States abroad under all kinds of circumstances. What they did and how and why they did it are not well known to their compatriots. In 1996 the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) created a book series to increase public knowledge and appreciation of the involvement of American diplomats in the events of world history. The series seeks to demystify diplomacy by telling the story of those who have conducted our foreign relations, as they saw them and lived them.

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The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America's Embassies,
by Jane C. Loeffler

"What do we, as a nation, mean to say to the world? Jane C. Loeffler shrewdly looks for answers in a crucial yet neglected place: the architecture of America's embassies. From the petty jealousies on Capitol Hill to the fine points of modernist design, Loeffler's effortlessly erudite and highly readable account explains how our government has tried—with mixed success—to represent us abroad in steel and stone." —Howard Fineman, Chief Political Correspondent, Newsweek, and ABC News Analyst

Cloth: Nonmembers' price $27.50, Members' price $22.50, Special price $15.00

Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia,
by Charles T. Cross

“As a missionary’s son in China, a soldier in the Pacific war, and a career diplomat, Chuck Cross was an eyewitness to America’s fateful encounters in Asia across five decades.  His memoir is history at close-up range, full of revealing, well-observed details. Diplomats are schooled to take the world as it is, and these are a professional’s recollections. . . .  Yet no one who reads them will fail to sense Cross’s own solid values or his sympathy and respect for the ordinary Chinese and other Asians whom he lived among during the turbulent and often tragic events recounted in this book.” —Arnold R. Isaacs, author of Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy

Cloth: Nonmembers' price $69.00, Members' price $30.00 (supply limited at $30.00)

Softcover: Nonmembers' price $24.95, Members' price $20.00

A Brief History of United States Diplomacy, by ADST

"[A Brief History of United States Diplomacy is] splendid, full of just the kind of portraiture and basic information that 'fixes' the tradition of American diplomacy in the minds of students, U.S. citizens and non-Americans alike." —Alan K. Henrikson, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Softcover: Nonmembers' price $6, Members' price $4.50, Bulk [25 or more] price $3.50

Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer,
by Howard R. Simpson

"When it comes to recounting his adventures on four continents, Howard Simpson is the David Niven of Foreign Service officers." —George Stevens Jr., filmmaker and AFI founder

Cloth: Nonmembers' price $24.95, Members' price $20

Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness ,
by Michael P. E. Hoyt

“Michael Hoyt’s book is a gripping and well-documented tale of U.S. relations with the remnants of the Belgian Congo during the 1964 Simba rebellion in Stanleyville. A deftly written account of an American diplomat’s experiences while held hostage by rebels through truly harrowing times, it reads like a fast-paced thriller. Tragically, it bears an eerie resemblance to events today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hoyt’s professional, almost clinically detached style gives these pages authenticity and drama.”  —Brandon Grove, U.S. ambassador to Zaire, 1984-87

Cloth: Nonmembers' price $34.95, Members' price $29.00

China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations 1945 , Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

"An insider's view of how American policy toward China has been made over the last seven decades, China Confidential is an indispensable source for anyone wishing to understand the formal communiqués, dispatches, and memoranda that constitute the raw materials of diplomatic history and international relations." —Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University, author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China

Cloth: Nonmembers' price $49.95, Members' price $40.00;

Softcover: Nonmembers' price $21.00, Members' price $17.00

Crossing The Divide: An Insider's Account of the Normalization of U.S.-China Relations, by John H. Holdridge

"John Holdridge meets the criteria of both professional and scholar, and his description of the relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China from 1945 to the present is must reading for every American interested in the accurate reporting of the evolution of America's post–World War II relationship with China." —From the Foreword by Alexander M. Haig Jr., former Secretary of State

Cloth: Nonmembers' price $79, Members' price $60

Paperback: Nonmembers' price $28.95, Members' price $23

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