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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Photo of U.S. Ambassador Clarence Gauss
Introduction: Closing Pandora’s Box
Part One
1. Making a Difference
2. The Militiamen of Diplomacy: 1776–80
3. “The Sword Was Sheathed”: 1781–85
4. Of Consuls, Commerce, and Confidence: 1784–1810
5. Paying Off the Pirates: 1785–1805
6. “One Nation as to Foreign Concerns”: 1787–95
7. “To Prepare for War Will Be Wise”: 1793–1811
8. Drive for Identity and Respect: 1811–23
9. An Early Professional: 1825–42
10. The Spoils System: 1829–48
11. Expansion Westward: 1821–45
12. War with Mexico: 1845–46
13. Consular Reform: 1853–65
14. Japan’s First American Consul: 1856–62
15. The Nation at War with Itself: 1861–65
16. Public Trust, Private Property: 1866–85
17. The Long, Bumpy Road to Professionalism: 1864–97
Part Two
18. First Steps to Empire: 1898–99
19. Three Diplomatic Friends: 1898–1905
20. Practicing Imperialism: 1898–1905
21. “The Main Object of Diplomacy”: 1905–12
22. Warm-up for a World War: 1899–1914
23. “Well, The Roof Has Fallen In”: 1914–16
24. “Slaughterhouse Where Madness Dwells”: 1915–17
25. “America in Armageddon”: 1917–20
26. The Russian “Terror”: 1917–20
27. The New Diplomacy of Oil: 1919–38
28. “A Single Unified Service”: 1920–45
29. Between World Wars: 1920–39
30. Early Aggressions: 1934–39
31. “The Sands Are Running Fast”: 1931–41
32. “A Rattlesnake Posed to Strike”: 1939–41
33. “A Very Tragic Moment”: 1941–45
34. Foreign Service for a New World: 1946–51
35. The Foreign Service Catches Up: 1946–88
Part Three
36. Diversity Comes to the Elite Service: 1922–2011
37. China Hands: 1946–89
38. Public Diplomacy: 1941–2012
39. Diplomacy for American Dictators: 1953–89
40. Trujillo and Pinochet—Contrast in Violence: 1960–2004
41. Dangerous Diplomacy: 1960–78
42. Terrorists in the Embassies: 1968–2009
43. A War Too Far—Vietnam: 1952–75
44. Destiny and the Peacock Throne: 1951–81
45. Shuttling Salesman for Peace: 1947–83
46. The Very Model of a Modern Foreign Service: 1970–2011
47. The First and Second Iraq Wars: 1982–2011
48. Fortress America: The Embassy: 2004–07
49. New Challenges for Modern Diplomacy: 1970–2013
50. The Ambassador: 2011–13
Notes
AFSA Memorial List
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by J. Robert Moskin
About the Author
Photographs
Copyright
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