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Mr. Ambassador : Warrior for Peace by Edward J. Perkins and Connie Cronley (2006, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-100806137673

ISBN-139780806137674

eBay Product ID (ePID)48657948

Product Key Features

Book TitleMr. Ambassador : Warrior for Peace

Number of Pages576 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicPersonal Memoirs, International Relations / General, Political, Educators

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorEdward J. Perkins, Connie Cronley

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight42.2 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-053882

Preface byBoren, David L.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal327.730092 B

Synopsis"Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me." So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As he fulfilled that assignment, Perkins was scourged by the American press, despised by the Afrikaner government, hissed at by white South African citizens, and initially boycotted by black South African revolutionaries, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His advice to President-elect George H. W. Bush helped modify American policy and hasten the release of Nelson Mandela and others from prison. Perkins's up-by-your-bootstraps life took him from a cotton farm in segregated Louisiana to the white elite Foreign Service, where he became the first black officer to ascend to the top position of director general. This is the story of how one man turned the page of history., Thes memoir of one of America's most courageous statesmen, Edward J. Perkins, is illustrated with 50 b&w photographs and 6 maps. "A dynamic history of a time, a people, a nation, and one extraordinary man."--Colleen McCullough, author of The Thorn Birds and The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra.

LC Classification NumberE840.8.P4255A3 2006