Cotton Fields to Summits - Couverture souple

George Alfred Kennedy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0998905909 ISBN 13 : 9780998905907

Editeur : SETAF Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

“Cotton Fields To Summits” chronicles the path of the author from the cotton fields of South Carolina at the age of eight through a career in the American Foreign Service to the summitry of international diplomacy in the mid-1990s. George recounts the choices and the decisions that shaped his experiences in Bonn, Brussels, Paris, and Rome from the Kennedy assassination in 1963 through the implementation of NAFTA during an assignment as the American Consul General in Toronto in 1996. And there were assignments in Manila during the Vietnam buildup and in Pusan, South Korea during the turbulent years of the Carter presidency. George identifies his “Chorus of Angels”; figures in his life who individually and collectively guided him through an unlikely career during which he experienced the fist-pumping highs of success and the disappointments of temporary setbacks. George learned four languages (Italian, French, German, and Korean); lived in seven countries (Italy twice, Germany, France, Belgium, Korea, the Philippines, and Canada) and traveled to a dozen others. He had been a participant in, or an official witness to, significant historical events, several of which defined and shaped the latter half of the twentieth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SETAF Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0998905909
• ISBN 13: 9780998905907
• Reliure: Paperback
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 426
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• Personne responsable: non disponible