Caught between Roosevelt & Stalin : America's ambassadors to Moscow / by Dunn, Dennis J.

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Proud servant : the memoirs of a career ambassador / by Briggs, Ellis, 1899-

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The Earl and his butler in Constantinople : the secret diary of an English servant among the Ottomans / by Webb, Nigel

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Ellsworth Bunker : global troubleshooter, Vietnam hawk / by Schaffer, Howard B.

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The genteel tradition and the sacred rage : high culture vs. democracy in Adams, James, & Santayana / by Dawidoff, Robert

Subjects: “…James, Henry, 1843-1916. Ambassadors.…”
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The first Cold War : the legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet relations / by Davis, Donald E., 1936-

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African Americans on the western frontier /

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The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / by Leeman, William P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : armed ambassadors -- Prologue : the maddest idea in the world -- Defending the New Republic -- Learning the ropes -- A West Point for the Navy? …”
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Performing ethnomusicology : teaching and representation in world music ensembles /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : teaching what cannot be taught : an optimistic overview -- Sounding the other : academic world music ensembles in historical perspective -- Square pegs and spokesfolk : serving and adapting to the academy -- Patchworkers, actors, and ambassadors : representing ourselves and others -- Take-off points : creativity and pedagogical obligation.…”
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The quest for the perfect hive : a history of innovation in bee culture / by Kritsky, Gene

Table of Contents: “…Honey bees and the origin of beekeeping -- The forest beekeepers -- Skeps -- Bee niches -- Early box hives -- Beekeeping comes to America -- Glass jar beekeeping -- The Crystal Palace Exhibition : a beekeeping showcase -- Bars, frames, and the bee space -- Resistance to change -- Alfred Neighbour : British beekeeping ambassador -- Transition -- Bee houses -- Bee calendars -- Beekeeper's paraphernalia -- The end of innovation.…”
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Henry James and the imagination of pleasure / by Hadley, Tessa

Table of Contents: “…: reflections on the last chapters of The Portrait of a Lady -- As charming as a charming story': governesses in What Maisie Knew and 'The Turn of the Screw' -- 'The sacred terror': The Awkward Age and James's men of the world -- Blushing in the dark: language and sex in The Ambassadors -- Poor girls with their rent to pay: class in 'In the Cage'and The Wings of the Dove -- 'A house of quiet': privileges and pleasures in The Golden Bowl -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The A to Z of NATO and other international security organizations / by Rimanelli, Marco, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Forward / Robert E. Hunter, U.S. Ambassador to MATO (1993-1998) -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- -- Maps and charts -- Photos of NATO Secretaries-General -- Photos of NATO Supreme Allied Commanders-Europe (SACEURs) -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendixes -- I: NATO's Secretaries-General -- II: Supreme Allied Commanders-Europe (SACEURs) -- III: NATO Committees -- IV: The North Atlantic Treaty -- Bibliography -- About the author.…”
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Iwao Takamoto : my life with a thousand characters / by Takamoto, Iwao

Table of Contents: “…-- A kid of the city -- A Japanese American in time of war -- Manzanar -- Nine old men and a guy named Walt -- Milt -- Tales from D-wing and all that jazz -- Changes -- Bill and Joe -- Hardworking artists and "Lazy Lucy" -- Taking on responsibility by design ... or otherwise -- Reinventing the TV toon with "Jonny Quest" and "Scooby-Doo" -- International expansion -- Falling into "Charlotte's web" -- Hanna-Barbera branches out -- The busiest place on earth -- A studio in flux and a new role as "ambassador" -- An era ends; a legacy lives on.…”
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The new Brazil / by Roett, Riordan, 1938-

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