Global Adventures On Less-Traveled Roads: A Foreign Service Memoir
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781540790392
$21.78
This autobiographical memoir traces Foreign Service Officer Jim Bullington's journey along less-traveled roads from redneck roots to a career as a diplomat and U.S. Ambassador. His adventures include challenging segregation as a college newspaper editor in Alabama; three tours of duty as a "warrior diplomat" in Vietnam; service in exotic posts in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; a job as municipal Foreign Minister for the City of Dallas; six years as Peace Corps Director in Niger; and post-retirement recall to diplomatic duty in Senegal to help end a 30-year insurgency. The book recounts his personal as well as professional life, including his marriage to Tuy-Cam following their narrow escape from behind North Vietnamese lines during the 1968 Tet Offensive. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the practice of American diplomacy, featuring struggles with Washington bureaucrats as well as hostile foreign leaders.
- | Author: James R. Bullington
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 334 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1540790398
- | ISBN-13: 9781540790392
- Author:
- James R. Bullington
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Jan 10, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 334 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1540790398
- ISBN-13:
- 9781540790392