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It took a year of intensive work to make it possible to go to Hanoi and then we had to fly via Moscow. The result is a book that tells this intricate history in narrative form, and also recounts the maturation of the United States through the lens of foreign diplomacy.

j robert moskin biography of rory

Recently, Blight has written A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which won the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize.

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Before them, we were a much more isolated and secondary nation in the world. Secondly, the expansion from the original thirteen states westward over land ruled by Britain and by Spain was achieved through diplomacy (except for the Mexican War). He has also written a three-part narrative history of the U.S.

Bird, Kai

Kai Bird is a historian and Executive Director of Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York.

In the early days, our diplomats who died abroad were killed by disease; more recently, they have been killed by terrorists. His most recent book is The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Blight, David W.

David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University.

Moskin and his wife Lynn live in New York City and Tyringham, Massachusetts.

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Ambrose, Stephen E.

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) was a historian and professor who wrote on military history, presidential history, and American expansion and foreign policy.

American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service

"An ambitious, impressively researched history" of American diplomacy from 1776 to today's U.S. Foreign Service ( Kirkus.
American Statecraft is a fascinating and comprehensive look at the unsung men and women of the U.S.

Foreign Service who have played a crucial part in our history for over two centuries. He served for nineteen years as an editor of Look magazine, spending the last five years as its Foreign Editor and was an editor of Collier’s and The Saturday Review, as well as the editorial director of The Aspen Institute and The Commonwealth Fund.

And often, not always, they work.

HR: You spent fifteen years researching the book, delving into the history in incredible detail.

Foreign Service Expert J. Robert Moskin Discusses Vietnam and the Challenges of American Diplomacy

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An award-winning historian and journalist, J.

What surprised me the most was that in Saigon we could hear and see the war; but (except when we were bombing) the war was nowhere near Hanoi. And diplomats are the ones who prevent wars and solve problems without violence. The cocks crowing woke us in the morning.

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AMERICAN STATECRAFT: The Story of the U.S.

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Written by award-winning historian and journalist J. Robert Moskin, this is the first comprehensive book telling the story of America’s diplomatic corps, from the days of Ben Franklin through the 2013 induction of John Kerry as Secretary of State. Bird is the author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.

Robert Oppenheimer, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, a New York Times bestseller. The whole element of time has been revolutionized; it used to take months to get a message across the Atlantic and back; today it is almost instantaneous. Those are some of the key changes.

HR: Over the course of U.S.

History, there have been many notable diplomatic events and crises: multiple wars in the early days of the country, the Civil War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran Hostage Crisis, and recently, the attack in Benghazi to name a few. W. Brands is a best-selling author, historian, and the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.

Are there any events during the long history of the Foreign Service that really stand out as something interesting that people may not know about?

JRM: Two things stand out: First is that without our diplomats it is unlikely that the North would have kept the United States united at the time of our Civil War; strong forces in Europe would have preferred to see a separate U.S.

Confederacy and two nations across the Atlantic. He has reported from troubled spots around the globe: from Korea, the Middle East, eastern Europe, and three times from the Vietnam war – including a wartime visit to enemy-held Hanoi.

After earning degrees in American history from Harvard and Columbia, Mr. Moskin served nineteen years as an editor of Look magazine – the last five as its Foreign Editor.

Moskin profiles the men and women behind the scenes whose dedication and sacrifices have been a crucial part of our history for over two centuries, and who laid the foundation for the craft of American diplomacy.

Moskin spent more than 15 years researching this book, criss-crossing the globe to conduct hundreds of interviews with people both in and out of the State Department.

Without our diplomats, the vast land that makes up the U.S. could have been chopped into several entities.

HR: The world has obviously changed quite a bit in the more than two centuries since America was founded.