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Summary:

"The autobiography of one of America's highly esteemed diplomats, Ambassador Anthony "Tony" C. E. Quainton, and his long and storied career in eleven countries on six continents in a unique diversity of top posts"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Seattle beginnings
• The Victoria connection
• Go East, young man
• English interlude
• A tiger in my tank
• Oxford days
• Meeting the Soviet bear
• Foreign service beginnings
• The Raj and beyond
• Paris interlude
• Nepal : land of the yeti
• The heart of darkness
• Counterterrorism
• Life in revolutionary Nicaragua
• Diplomacy and regime change
• Desert sands
• Rooting out corruption and incompetence
• Democracy, drugs, and development : Andean adventure
• Final Washington years
• Challenges in the nonprofit world

• The classroom and beyond
• Epilogue: Christian, gentleman, cricketer.

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Author/Creator:

Quainton, Anthony C. E. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Eye on the world: a life in international service [by Quainton, A.C.E.]

Related Series:

ADST-DACOR Diplomats and diplomacy series

Subjects:

Quainton, Anthony C. E.

United States Foreign Service — Biography

United States Department of State — Biography

Diplomats — United States — Biography

Ambassadors — United States — Biography

Diplomatic and consular service — United States

United States — Foreign relations — 1945-1989

United States — Foreign relations — 1989-

General Notes:

"An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

E840.8.Q27 A3 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781640125339 (electronic bk.)
1640125337 (electronic bk.)
9781640124035 [Invalid]
1640124039 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1315537899

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6976590 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17930455