Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures Of A Foreign Service Officer; Author: Simpson, Howard R.; Hardback; Book

Author: Simpson, Howard R.
Reissue; Hardback; Book; Illustrations
224 pages
Published: October 1998
Brassey's (UK) Ltd
ISBN: 157488154X

An inside look at life in the U. S. Foreign Service.A novelist recounts his unusual diplomatic career, providing an insider's look into life in the US Foreign Service - an elite, important, but often unsung branch of the US government. A novelist recounts his unusual diplomatic career, providing an insider's look into life in the US Foreign Service - an elite, important, but often unsung branch of the US government.The author provides a firsthand look at life as an American diplomat. He takes the reader on his own assignments as he witnesses the end of the colonial era and serves in the diplomatic front lines of the Cold War. Dispelling the stuffy image of diplomacy, he reveals the often strange, interesting r