The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy by Paradiso, Dante

The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780825308253)

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The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy by Paradiso, Dante

The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy

$26.95
The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy by Paradiso, Dante

The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing look into the struggle of liberating a nation from dictatorship.

In a distant war, in a city under siege, U.S. Ambassador John W. Blaney faced a terrible choice: abandon the mission, or risk the lives of his team to give diplomacy one last chance. In 2003, Liberia was one of the most dangerous and isolated countries in the world. President Charles Taylor, a feared warlord, presided over a fractured state of countless unruly militiamen and child soldiers as two rebel armies marched to depose him. When an international court indicted Taylor for war crimes, the rebels attacked the capital and months of vicious fighting ensued.

The Embassy is a graphic and cinematic retelling of the chilling climax of the Liberian civil war and the U.S. and West African role in ending it. Through interviews with the Ambassador and key members of the country team, as well as with peacekeepers, U.S. troops, relief workers, foreign correspondents, senior Liberian officials and rebel leaders, Dante Paradiso reconstructs the violence and chaos of those times to create an enduring portrait of a U.S. embassy under fire and daring frontline diplomacy that changed the fate of a nation.

Author: Dante Paradiso
ISBN-10: 0825308259
ISBN-13: 9780825308253
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2016
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2017
By Dante Paradiso
By Dante Paradiso
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Dante Paradiso is a writer, lawyer, and career Foreign Service Officer who has served extensively in Africa and Asia. He is the author of The Pure Life, a novel, and has contributed opinion pieces to the online editions of Foreign Affairs, National Geographic Voices, and, through the Tribune News Service, the Miami Herald, the Tampa Tribune, the Akron Beacon Journal, and Newsday, among others. Prior to joining the U.S. Department of State, Mr. Paradiso practiced financial services and bankruptcy law with Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston. Mr. Paradiso received his J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and his B.A. in Political Science from Yale, after preparing at The Horace Mann School. He is a recipient of the State Department's Heroism Award (group) and Superior Honor Award, and the U.S. Army's Superior Civilian Service Award. He comes from New York City and when not on assignment makes his home in Portland, Oregon with his wife, son, and dog.

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