Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 157488154X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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He also wrote several nonfiction books, including Someone Else's War and Dien Bien Phu. Simpson was the author of eight other well-received novels. About the Author The late Howard R
The late Howard R. He also wrote several nonfiction books, including Someone Else's War and Dien Bien Phu. Simpson was the author of eight other well-received novels
B. Alcat said " It just happened ". "Although the passing of time often tends to blur specific memories and dates, the events in this book are factual and, I trust, untainted by political correctness". The person who wrote this in the preface to "Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer" is the author of the book. Excellent for those who want public diplomacy career track I bought this book with the hope that it would give me some insight on how to answer the hypothetical questions of the State Department's Foreign Service Oral exam that I have coming up. On the down side, he spent little time discussing his early career, and since I'm going for the Managerial trac. "Good writing, but not very insightful" according to A Customer. This seems to be basically a collection of mildly intriguing antidotes from Mr. Simpson's diary. It gives some idea of what it was like to be an information officer, and some of the stories are interesting. But the book lacks emotion, wallows in neutrality and is quite dated (ending in 1979). Mr.
Bush Hat, Black Tie is a novelist's wry, firsthand look at life as an American diplomat. Simpson takes the reader on his own challenging assignments in wartime French Indochina, Nigeria, France, wartime South Vietnam, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Algeria, and the United States, as he witnesses the end of the colonial era and serves in the diplomatic front lines of the Cold War. Thoroughly dispelling the stuffy, "striped pants" image of diplomacy, he reveals the often strange, always interesting realities of representing one's country overseas, whether while wearing a bush hat in the battlefields of Indochina or a tuxedo at the Cannes Film Festival. Howard R. The colorful personalities he encounters along the way range from Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle to Alfred Hitchcock and Henry Miller.