Category: Diplomacy
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Library Time
I’m grateful to the Fairfax County Public Library for adding Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy, their—our!—catalogue.
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Sargent Shriver’s Memoir
Shriver’s memoir offers lessons on the price of overconfidence in brute power abroad vs pragmatic idealism at home.
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Book Review – Late to the Party
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In this collection of superb essays Dan Whitman is both poet and musician. An artist, he reveals the truths we know in our heart but may fail to enunciate.
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Profiles in Service Now on Kindle
Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy is now available in seconds on your Kindle.
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Time Out for Hot Dogs
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Our diplomacy is retail. Do not cede it to some brutish authority. Recommend the best you meet in every circumstance. Diplomats can be everybody. Diplomats are everywhere
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Speaking of Writing
They welcomed me for a chat about about the Peace Corps, life in the Foreign Service, and my recent book, Profiles in Service.
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Gratitude and Storytelling
The past is glibly overwritten, the present maliciously falsified, and we must fight back with the truth by sharing our stories.
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Launch Day
The writer is greedy, demanding, insistent. Each word must lead the reader to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a page.
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Three Koreas
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The harsh environment, the boys pushed hard by striving parents, the high expectations Koreans had for themselves and Peace Corps volunteers all made for an often grinding experience
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Profile: Kathleen Stephens
“Let us hope that other nations will mobilize the spirit and energies and skill of their people in some form of Peace Corps.” President Kennedy, 1961
Ben East Books 