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  • Sargent Shriver’s Memoir

    Sargent Shriver’s Memoir

    Shriver’s memoir offers lessons on the price of overconfidence in brute power abroad vs pragmatic idealism at home. Read more

  • Book Review – Late to the Party

    Book Review – Late to the Party

    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. Read more

  • Review: Meet Me in the Morning

    Review: Meet Me in the Morning

    Meet Me in the Morning is a quintessentially Connecticut novel, a quintessentially Ellington novel, the protagonist a nobody from nowhere trapped in a post-UCONN limbo. Read more

  • Profiles in Service Now on Kindle

    Profiles in Service Now on Kindle

    Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy is now available in seconds on your Kindle. Read more

  • Book Review: Revenge of the Seawolf

    Book Review: Revenge of the Seawolf

    Mystery and adventure will keep readers turning the pages, and Theroux adds rich layers of historic detail, authenticity, and curiosity to the narrative. Read more

  • Time Out for Hot Dogs

    Time Out for Hot Dogs

    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 Read more