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Mr. Ambassador : : Warrior for peace / Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley ; foreword by George P. Schultz ; preface by David L. Boren.

Tác giả : Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley ; foreword by George P. Schultz ; preface by David L. Boren.

Nhà xuất bản : University of Oklahoma Press

Năm xuất bản : 2006

Nơi xuất bản : Norman, OK

Mô tả vật lý : xvi, 560 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm

ISBN : 9780806137674

Số phân loại : 327.730092

Chủ đề : 1. Nhà ngoại giao người Mỹ gốc Phi. 2. African American diplomats. 3. Ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ.

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Tóm tắt :

"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. To achieve this success, he drew on his expertise in conflict resolution, devotion to the U.S. Constitution, deep study of Asian philosophy, and training as a former U.S. marine.". "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."--BOOK JACKET.

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