The Rise and Fall of America’s Diplomats
The Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association at 100
by Harry W. Kopp
by Jacob Heilbrunn
In his short story “Mosby’s Memoirs,” which was based on the life of the conservative scholar and former State Department official Willmoore Kendall, Saul Bellow expressed his disdain for foreign policy mandarins: “…the Foreign Service is staffed by rejects of the power structure. Young gentlemen from good Eastern colleges who couldn’t make it as Wall […]
